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chefnap

chefnap verb: to abduct or kidnap a chef.

Verb

chefnap (third-person singular simple present chefnaps, present participle chefnapping, simple past and past participle chefnapped)

  1. (transitive) To abduct or kidnap a chef.
    • That Wodehouse Chap I think you have hit upon a brilliant new scheme in publishing Wodehouse on "chefnapping" (NATIONAL AFFAIRS, March 6). What better way to have readers become acquainted with authors they haven't sampled than with your vignettes? (Reviews on Wodehouse are usually "Wodehouse is...1961, Samuel Thurston Williamson, Raymond Moley, Malcolm Muir, Rex Smith, Joseph Becker Phillips, Newsweek, Volume 57, volume 57, Newsweek, Incorporated, page 2
    • What happens when People's Republic master chef Uncle Ho accepts an invitation to Washington, thanks to Henry Kissinger, to prepare a delectable multi-course Chinese dinner for East-West negotiations? You can bet it's more than birds' nest soup. Little do Uncle Ho or government officials suspect...1975, The Publishers Weekly, Volume 208, volume 208, F. Leypoldt, page 95

Examples of chefnap in a sentence

  • That Wodehouse Chap I think you have hit upon a brilliant new scheme in publishing Wodehouse on "chefnapping" (NATIONAL AFFAIRS, March 6).1961, Samuel Thurston Williamson, Raymond Moley, Malcolm Muir, Rex Smith, Joseph Becker Phillips, Newsweek, Volume 57, volume 57, Newsweek...
  • Little do Uncle Ho or government officials suspect that there's a chefnapping in the fortune cookie.1975, The Publishers Weekly, Volume 208, volume 208, F. Leypoldt, page 95:

Forms of chefnap

third-person singular presentchefnaps
present participlechefnapping
past participlechefnapped
pastchefnapped

Origin of chefnap

From chef + -nap.

Questions about chefnap

What does chefnap mean?
Chefnap means to abduct or kidnap a chef.
How do you use chefnap in a sentence?
That Wodehouse Chap I think you have hit upon a brilliant new scheme in publishing Wodehouse on "chefnapping" (NATIONAL AFFAIRS, March 6).
What part of speech is chefnap?
Chefnap is a verb.
What is the past tense of chefnap?
The past tense of chefnap is chefnapped.

Words near chefnap in the dictionary

  1. cheflike
  2. chefling
  3. cheflings
  4. chefly
  5. chefmanship
  6. chefnap
  7. chefnapped
  8. chefnapping
  9. chefnappings
  10. chefnaps
  11. Chefoo

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