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wap (plural waps)

1. (UK, dialect) A blow or beating; a whap.
2. (colloquial) A breast.
3. A bundle.
4. (MLE, slang) A weapon, gun.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:firearm

wap (third-person singular simple present waps, present participle wapping, simple past and past participle wapped)

1. (UK, dialect) To beat; to whap.
   • 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, “How king Arthur commanded to cast his sword Excalibur into the water and how he was delivered to ladies in a barge”, in Le Morte d'Arthur‎, London: MacMillan & Co, published 1919, book 21, chapter 5, page 480:

     Sir, he said, I saw nothing but the waters wap and the waves wan.

2. (archaic, UK, thieves' cant) To engage in sexual intercourse.
   • 1611, Thomas Middleton, “The Roaring Girl”, in Arthur Henry Bullen, editor, The Works of Thomas Middleton‎, volume 4, published 1885, act 5, scene 1, pages 128–129:

     Ben mort, shall you and I heave a bough, mill a ken, or nip a bung, and then we'll couch a hogshead under the ruffmans, and there you shall wap with me, and I'll niggle with you.

   • 1707, John Shirley, “The Maunder's Praise of his Strowling Mort”, in The Triumph of Wit:

     No gentry mort hath prats like thine, / No cove e'er wap'd with such a one.

   • 1988, Timberlake Wertenbaker, Our Country's Good, act 2, scene 1:

     Liz, he says, why trine for a make, when you can wap for a winne. I'm no dimber mort, I says. Don't ask you to be a swell mollisher, sister, coves want Miss Laycock, don't look at your mug. So I begin to sell my mother of saints.

3. (obsolete, transitive) To wrap or bind.

• (beat): see Thesaurus:attack
• (sexual intercourse): see Thesaurus:copulate

• Albert Barrère and Charles G[odfrey] Leland, compilers and editors (1889–1890) “wap”, in A Dictionary of Slang, Jargon & Cant , volume II (L–Z), Edinburgh: The Ballantyne Press, →OCLC, page 401.
• John S[tephen] Farmer; W[illiam] E[rnest] Henley, compilers (1904) “wap”, in Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present. , volume VII, Neill and Co.] , →OCLC, pages 292–293.

• APW, AWP, PAW, PWA, WPA, paw

wap

1. foot

• Chris Rogers, The Use and Development of the Xinkan Languages

From Proto-Malayic *uap, from Proto-Malayo-Chamic *uap, from Proto-Malayo-Sumbawan *uap.

• IPA^(key): /uap/
• Rhymes: -uap, -wap, -ap

wap (Jawi spelling واڤ, informal 1st possessive wapku, 2nd possessive wapmu, 3rd possessive wapnya)

1. steam (water vapor)

• “wap” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

From English wharf.

wap

1. wharf