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wap

/wæp/

wap noun: a blow, hitbeating; a whap. Also the alternative form of wop.

Noun (1)

wap (plural waps)

  1. (UK) A blow, hitbeating; a whap.
  2. (colloquial) A breast.
  3. A bundle.
  4. (Multicultural-London-English, slang) A weapon, gun.
    Synonyms:
    firearm, gat, gun, iron, piece

Verb

wap (third-person singular simple present waps, present participle wapping, simple past and past participle wapped)

  1. (UK) To beat; to whap.
    • Sir, he said, I saw nothing but the waters wap and the waves wan.1485, Sir Thomas Malory, “How king Arthur commanded to cast his sword Excalibur into the water and how he was delivered to ladies in a barge”, in Le Morte d'Arthur, London: MacMillan & Co, published...
    • I[…]wapped him over his head2006, George Jachimowicz, The Wizard King:Book One
    Synonyms:
    attack
  2. (UK, archaic, thieves' cant) To engage in sexual intercourse.
    • Ben mort, shall you and I heave a bough, mill a ken, or nip a bung, and then we'll couch a hogshead under the ruffmans, and there you shall wap with me, and I'll niggle with you.1611, Thomas Middleton, “The Roaring Girl”, in Arthur Henry Bullen, editor, The Works of Thomas Middleton, volume 4, published 1885, act 5, scene 1, pages 128–129
    • No gentry mort hath prats like thine, / No cove e'er wap'd with such a one.1707, John Shirley, “The Maunder's Praise of his Strowling Mort”, in The Triumph of Wit
    Synonyms:
    copulate
  3. (obsolete, transitive) To wrap or bind.

Proper noun capitalized: WAP

WAP

  1. Wireless Application Protocol, an open international standard for applications that use wireless communication, such as Internet access from a cellular phone.

Noun (2) capitalized: WAP

WAP (countable and uncountable, plural WAPs)

  1. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of wireless access point.
  2. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of whey acidic protein.
  3. (abbreviation, initialism, slang, vulgar) Initialism of wet-ass pussy.
    • “You're worried about this dude? Seriously? The boy is whipped on that WAP. Whipped, I tell you.”2021, Cassia Leo, Savage Love, unnumbered page
    • "I gotcha, Doc. I won't bother her for another week or so, but after that, I'm all in that WAP!" Jamal said, pumping the air like he was having sex.2021, Alicia Reynolds, Grown Little Girl 2: Taking Over the Reigns, unnumbered page

Also used as

wap is also the alternative form of wop.

Synonyms of wap

All synonyms of wap

Forms of wap

Noun
pluralwaps
pluralWAPs
Verb
third-person singular presentwaps
present participlewapping
past participlewapped
pastwapped

Plural of wap: waps

Origin of wap

The use of WAP to mean "wet-ass pussy" was popularized, if not coined, by the August 2020 Cardi B song WAP.

Words formed from wap

Words that rhyme with wap

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Questions about wap

What does wap mean?
Wap means a blow, hitbeating; a whap.
What part of speech is wap?
Wap can be a noun, a verb or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce wap?
Wap is pronounced /wæp/.
What is the plural of wap?
The plural of wap is waps.

Words near wap in the dictionary

  1. Wanzhou
  2. wanzing
  3. Wao
  4. Waorani
  5. waow
  6. wap
  7. wap.
  8. WAPA
  9. Wapakoneta
  10. wapanese
  11. wapato

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: wap (page history and authors); WAP (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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