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daps

daps is the plural of dap.

daps is the third-person singular simple present indicative of dap.

Meaning of dap

Noun (1)

dap (plural daps)

  1. (Wales, West-Country, plural-normally, Somerset, Bristol) A plimsoll.
    • I somehow expected them to shout obscenities, and was glad I had come ordinarily dressed, in a sports shirt, an old linen jacket, jeans and daps.1988, Alan Hollinghurst, The Swimming-Pool Library, paperback edition, London: Penguin Books, →ISBN, page 169
  2. A notch cut in one timber to receive another.
  3. (slang) Vulva or vagina.

Noun (2)

dap (plural daps)

  1. (originally) Elaborate handshake, especially hooking thumbs.
    • ... where many officers look the other way when blacks ‘give dap’ (the power shake) ...1971, London Magazine, volume 11, page 33
  2. A fist bump.
    Synonyms:
    dab

See all 9 meanings of dap

Noun capitalized: DAPs

DAPs

  1. (plural) plural of DAP

Phrases with daps

Questions about daps

What is daps the plural of?
Daps is the plural of dap.
What part of speech is daps?
Daps is a noun.

Words near daps in the dictionary

  1. dapplings
  2. DApps
  3. dappy
  4. Dappy hat
  5. daprodustat
  6. daps
  7. daps up
  8. dapsone
  9. dapsones
  10. dapster
  11. dapsters

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Adapted from Wiktionary: daps (page history and authors); DAPs (page history and authors); dap (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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