whap

Noun (1)

whap (plural whaps)

1. A blow; a hit; a whop.
2. (UK, colloquial) A breast.

Verb

whap (third-person singular simple present whaps, present participle whapping, simple past and past participle whapped)

1. (US, transitive) To strike hard and suddenly.
2. (US, intransitive) To throw oneself quickly, or by an abrupt motion; to turn suddenly.
   • He wears his hat a little a one side, rakish-like, whaps his cane down ag’in the pavement hard, as if he intended to keep things in their place, swaggers a few, as if he though he had a right to look big […]1844, Thomas Chandler Haliburton, Judge Haliburton’s Yankee Stories, Part Two, Chapter 22, Philadelphia: Lindsay & Blakiston, pp. 179-180
   • TO WHAP OVER. To turn over. (New England.)1848, John Russell Bartlett, Dictionary of Americanisms, New York: Bartlett & Welford, page 379

Interjection

1. The sound of sudden blow or hit.
   • Whap, Biff, Ooooof, Sock, Pow, Zok! Batman is back. Gotham City is again leaving its law and order in the hands of a man who wears plastic underpants over his tights.1989 June 5, The Canberra Times, Australia Capital Territory, page 10, column 2

Noun (2)

whap (plural whaps)

1. (Scotland, obsolete) The curlew, Numenius arquata; a whaup.

Proper noun capitalized: WHAP

WHAP

1. (US, abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of Advanced Placement World History.