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Plural of lap

regular plural

The plural of lap is laps.

Forms of lap

Singularlap /læp/
Plurallaps /læps/
Countablecountable

Laps in a sentence

  • One laps roof tiles so that water can run off.
  • The cloth laps back.
  • The pool is too small for doing laps: it’s only a wading pool.From the entry wading
  • The coach made him run extra laps, because he was dogging it in practice.From the entry dog it
  • Frothing at the mouth and threatening expulsion, Coach relentlessly drove the team to more laps of the pitch.From the entry drive

Meaning of lap

  1. noun The loose part of a coat; the lower part of a garment that plays loosely; a skirt; an apron.
  2. noun An edge; a border; a hem, as of cloth.
  3. noun The part of the clothing that lies on the knees or thighs when one sits down; that part of the person thus covered.

Full definition of lap

Questions about the plural of lap

What is the plural of lap?
The plural of lap is laps.
Is lap countable?
Lap is a countable noun.

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: lap (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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