dap

See also: DAP, dåp, đạp, dāp, and däp

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dæp/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -æp

Etymology 1

Onomatopoeic, from the sound made when a person runs while wearing daps.

Noun

dap (plural daps)

1. (West Country, Somerset, Bristol, Wales, usually in the plural) A plimsoll.
   • 1988, Alan Hollinghurst, The Swimming-Pool Library, paperback edition, London: Penguin Books, →ISBN, page 169:

     I somehow expected them to shout obscenities, and was glad I had come ordinarily dressed, in a sports shirt, an old linen jacket, jeans and daps.

2. (carpentry) A notch cut in one timber to receive another.
3. (slang) Vulva or vagina.

Verb

dap (third-person singular simple present daps, present participle dapping, simple past and past participle dapped)

1. (Bristol) To run or go somewhere quickly.

   I'll just dap down to the shop.

2. (metalworking) To create a hollow indentation.
3. (fishing) To drop the bait gently onto the surface of the water.

Etymology 2

US 1971, originally by black soldiers during the Vietnam war, associated with Black Power movement. Originally an elaborate handshake, later specifically a fistbump.

Verb originally give dap. Presumably onomatopoeic, or influenced by tap, dab, etc. Alternatively, from earlier slang usage as abbreviation of dapper. Also explained as an acronym, such as “Dignity for Afro People” or “Dignity And Pride”; this may be a backronym or unrelated, but accords with phrasal use as “give DAP” (compare “give respect”). More speculative etymologies derive it from Vietnamese đẹp (“beautiful”), though this is unlikely.

Noun

dap (plural daps)

1. (originally) Elaborate handshake, especially hooking thumbs.
   • 1971, London Magazine, volume 11, page 33:

     ... where many officers look the other way when blacks ‘give dap’ (the power shake) ...

   • 1972, Sepia, volume 21, page 80:

     These bloods just give dap just so they won't be called Uncle Toms.

2. A fist bump.

   Synonym: dab

Verb

dap (third-person singular simple present daps, present participle dapping, simple past and past participle dapped)

1. To greet with a dap.

Derived terms

• dap up

Further reading

• giving dap on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• The Routledge Dictionary of Modern American Slang and Unconventional English (2009), p. 271

Anagrams

• APD, PDA, PAD, pad, DPA, ADP

Hamer-Banna

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dáp/, [dáp̚]

Ideophone

dap

1. act of taking

Rawang

Etymology

From Burmese တပ် (tap), from Mon ဒပ်.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɑp̚˥/

Noun

dap

1. army base.
2. army.

Synonyms

• pin
• pindap
• sìl

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [dap], [dap̚]

Interjection

dap

1. Informal form of da.; yup

Yola

Etymology

Cognate with English dap.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dap/

Noun

dap

1. touch, tap
   • 1867, “A YOLA ZONG”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 11, page 88:

     Up caame ee ball, an a dap or a kewe

     Up came the ball, and a tap or a shove

References

• Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 33

Zhuang

Etymology

Borrowed from Chinese 塔 (tǎ).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Zhuang) IPA^(key): /taːp˧˥/
• Tone numbers: dap⁷
• Hyphenation: dap

Noun

dap (1957–1982 spelling dap)

1. tower