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dap

See also: DAP, dåp, đạp, dāp, and däp

English

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Etymology 1

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

Noun

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dap (plural daps)

  1. (West Country, Somerset, Bristol, Wales, usually in the plural) A plimsoll.
  2. (carpentry) A notch cut in one timber to receive another.
  3. (slang) Vulva or vagina.

Verb

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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

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US 1971,[1] originally by black soldiers during the Vietnam war,[2] associated with Black Power movement. Originally an elaborate handshake, later specifically a fistbump.

Verb originally give dap. Presumably onomatopoeic,[3] or influenced by tap, dab,[4] etc. Alternatively, from earlier slang usage as abbreviation of dapper. Also explained as an acronym, such as “Dignity for Afro People”[5] or “Dignity And Pride”;[6] this may be a backronym or unrelated,[4] but accords with phrasal use as “give DAP” (compare “give respect”). More speculative etymologies derive it from Vietnamese đẹp (“beautiful”),[7] though this is unlikely.

Noun

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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

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

  1. To greet with a dap.
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  1. ^ Mark Jury, The Vietnam photo book (1971), p. 27
  2. ^ The Routledge Dictionary of Modern American Slang and Unconventional English, p. 271
  3. ^ Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “dap”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Cassell's Dictionary of Slang, p. 383
  5. ^ Donald Kirk, Tell it to the Dead: Stories of a War (1975), p. 235
  6. ^ Hamilton, LaMont (2014). "Five on the Black Hand Side: Origins and Evolutions of the Dap." Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage. Smithsonian Institution.
  7. ^ Encyclopedia of African American History, p. 1080

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Rawang

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Etymology

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From Burmese တပ် (tap), from Mon ဒပ်.

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dap

  1. army base.
  2. army.

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Romanian

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Interjection

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dap

  1. Informal form of da.; yup

Yola

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Noun

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dap

  1. Alternative form of dab
    • 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

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  • 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

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Chinese 塔 (tǎ).

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dap (1957–1982 spelling dap)

  1. tower
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