Definition of "whap" in Anglais

noun

1. A blow; a hit; a whop.

2. (UK, colloquial) A breast.

verb

1. (US, transitive) To strike hard and suddenly.

2. (US, intransitive) 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 […]
   • She whapped down on the floor.
   • The fish whapped over.

interjection

1. The sound of sudden blow or hit.

noun

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