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lapped up

lapped up is the simple past and past participle of lap up.

Meaning of lap up

Verb

lap up (third-person singular simple present laps up, present participle lapping up, simple past and past participle lapped up)

  1. (transitive) To consume by lapping; to drink (something) quickly.
    • The cat's lapping up the milk in its bowl
  2. (figuratively, transitive) To revel in, to overtly enjoy.
    • You could see she was pleased, she was lapping up the applause.

Questions about lapped up

What is lapped up the simple past and past participle of?
Lapped up is the simple past and past participle of lap up.

Words near lapped up in the dictionary

  1. lappaceous
  2. lappaconitine
  3. Lappajärvi
  4. lappas
  5. lapped
  6. lapped up
  7. Lappeenranta
  8. lappel
  9. lappels
  10. lapper
  11. lapper-milk

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Adapted from Wiktionary: lapped up (page history and authors); lap up (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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