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fap

/fæp/

fap adjective: drunk.

Adjective

fap (not comparable)

  1. (obsolete) Drunk.
    • BARDOLPH: Why, sir, for my part, I say the gentleman had drunk himself out of his five sentences. / EVANS: It is his 'five senses'; fie, what the ignorance is! / BARDOLPH: And being fap, sir, was, as they say, cashier'd; and so conclusions passed the careires.c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merry Wiues of Windsor”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward]...
    Synonyms:
    drunk

Interjection

  1. (Internet, informal, vulgar) Indicates that someone (normally the speaker) is either masturbating, or inspired to by sexual arousal.
    • I was watching some porn – fap fap fap – when my computer crashed, again!
    • She's single?... *fap fap fap*

Verb

fap (third-person singular simple present faps, present participle fapping, simple past and past participle fapped)

  1. (slang, vulgar) To masturbate.
    • For what reason – other than a knowing sadistic streak – would they have named something millions of teenage girls were fapping themselves senseless with ‘Mum’?2014, Caitlin Moran, How to Build a Girl, Ebury, published 2015, page 39
    Synonyms:
    masturbate

Noun (1)

fap (plural faps)

  1. (countable, slang) A session of masturbation.
    • I was horny, so I had a quick fap in the public restroom.
  2. (informal, vulgar) Pornography.

Noun (2) capitalized: FAP

IPA/ɛf eɪ piː/

FAP (countable and uncountable, plural FAPs)

  1. (abbreviation, initialism, uncountable) Initialism of familial adenomatous polyposis.
  2. (abbreviation, countable, initialism) Initialism of fixed action pattern.

Synonyms of fap

Forms of fap

Verb
third-person singular presentfaps
present participlefapping
past participlefapped
pastfapped
Noun
pluralfaps
pluralFAPs

Origin of fap

Of unknown origin. First attested in 1616 in The Merry Wives of Windsor by William Shakespeare.

Onomatopoeic Internet neologism from the sound of penile masturbation, originally used in English translations of some adult Japanese manga, and popularized on the Internet by the webcomic The Thin H Line/Sexy Losers and other online sources. Compare Japanese しこしこ (shikoshiko).

Words formed from fap

Words that rhyme with fap

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Questions about fap

What does fap mean?
Fap means drunk.
What part of speech is fap?
Fap can be an adjective, an interjection, a verb or a noun.
How do you pronounce fap?
Fap is pronounced /fæp/.

Words near fap in the dictionary

  1. Fanø
  2. fao
  3. Faouzi
  4. Faouzia
  5. Faouzis
  6. fap
  7. fap it
  8. fap off
  9. fapfest
  10. fapfests
  11. fapiao

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: fap (page history and authors); FAP (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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