Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

whap

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.76 in modern English

Syllables: whap
IPA

12

Scrabble Score

4

Letters

1

Syllables

4

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A blow; a hit; a whop.

noun

British usage; Colloquial

verb

To strike hard and suddenly.

American usage; Transitive verb

verb

To throw oneself quickly, or by an abrupt motion; to turn suddenly.

American usage; Intransitive verb

intj

The sound of sudden blow or hit.

noun

The curlew, Numenius arquata; a whaup.

Obsolete

name

Initialism of Advanced Placement World History.

American usage

Example Sentences

"1844, Thomas Chandler Haliburton, Judge Haliburton’s Yankee Stories, Part Two, Chapter 22, Philadelphia: Lindsay & Blakiston, pp. 179-180, He wears his hat a little a one side, rakish-like, whaps his cane down ag’in the pavement hard, as if he intended to keep things in their place, swaggers a few, as if he though he had a right to look big […]"
"TO WHAP OVER. To turn over. (New England.)"
"And at last, as they wrestled and whapped together, they fell headlong in the stream."
"Screen doors whapped throughout the night […]"
"She whapped down on the floor."
"The fish whapped over."

Etymology

Onomatopoeic; variant of whop.

Usage

Inflected Forms

whaps (plural) whaps (present, singular) whapping (participle, present) whapped (participle, past) whapped (past)

Derived Forms

awhape

Synonyms

sock bop whop bonk bash

Rhymes With

app map cap gap crap trap tap snap wrap lap rap bad rap

Questions

What does whap mean?: A blow; a hit; a whop.
Where does whap come from?: Onomatopoeic; variant of whop.

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