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blaps

blaps noun: a blunder, a mistake.

Noun (1)

blaps (plural blapses)

  1. (South Africa, informal) A blunder, a mistake.
    • It seems to me that those are the kind of mistakes that might be made by somebody who does not have English as a first language - and I believe that Feri is such a person. ¶ Besides, do spelling or grammatical blapses invalidate an argument?2007 October 20, Bob Dubery, “Re: Has anybody else noticed?”, in soc.culture.south-africa (Usenet)

Noun (2) capitalized: BLAPs

BLAPs

  1. (plural) plural of BLAP.

Forms of blaps

pluralblapses

Origin of blaps

Borrowed from Afrikaans blaps (“howler, blooper”).

Questions about blaps

What does blaps mean?
Blaps means a blunder, a mistake.
What part of speech is blaps?
Blaps is a noun.
What is the plural of blaps?
The plural of blaps is blapses.

Words near blaps in the dictionary

  1. Blantyre
  2. blaow
  3. BLAP
  4. blaphart
  5. blapharts
  6. blaps
  7. blapses
  8. blare
  9. blare out
  10. blared
  11. blared out

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Adapted from Wiktionary: blaps (page history and authors); BLAPs (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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