FAPP
/fæp/
FAPP is the abbreviation of for all practical purposes.
Meaning of for all practical purposes
Prepositional phrase
- effectively, virtually; practically
- Synonyms:
- FAPP, for all intents and purposes, in practice
Origin of FAPP
Popularized by physicist John Stewart Bell.
Words that rhyme with FAPP
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- scrap
- map
- rap
- slap
- overlap
- pap
- crap
- sap
- yap
- bap
- unwrap
- app
- chap
- dap
- frappe
- nap
- uncap
- wap
- entrap
- enwrap
- fap
- frap
- hap
- jap
- minimap
- Phrygian cap
- plap
- recap
- whap
- anion gap
- asap
- bad rap
- belap
- betrap
- cloth cap
- Fanny Murray cap
- GAAP
- ion trap
- katsap
- lagniappe
- mishap
- Noddy cap
- scap
- shrap
- stap
- umbelap
- unstrap
- voting cap
Questions about FAPP
- What is FAPP the abbreviation of?
- FAPP is the abbreviation of for all practical purposes.
- How do you pronounce FAPP?
- FAPP is pronounced /fæp/.
Words near FAPP in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: FAPP (page history and authors); for all practical purposes (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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