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whap
noun 3verb 2intj 1name 1
Collocations
2ADJ.
over
WHAP + NOUN
biff, ooooof, sock
Definitions
noun
1
A blow; a hit; a whop.
2
A breast.
verb
1
To strike hard and suddenly.
2
To throw oneself quickly, or by an abrupt motion; to turn suddenly.
1844, Thomas Chandler Haliburton, Judge Haliburton’s Yankee Stories, Part Two, Chapter 22, Philadelphia: Lindsay & Blakiston, pp. 179-180, 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 […]
TO WHAP OVER. To turn over. (New England.)
intj
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.
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1844, Thomas Chandler Haliburton, Judge Haliburton’s Yankee Stories, Part Two, Chapter 22, Philadelphia: Lindsay & Blakiston, pp. 179-180, He wears his hat a little a one side, rakish-like, whaps his
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TO WHAP OVER. To turn over. (New England.)
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And at last, as they wrestled and whapped together, they fell headlong in the stream.
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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.
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