Meaning

3 senses

  1. A blow; a hit; a whop.

  2. (UK, colloquial)A breast.

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

Origin

Onomatopoeic; variant of whop. Variant of whaup.

Onomatopoeic; variant of whop.

Variant of whaup.

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Forms

plural: whaps
Singularwhap
Pluralwhaps

regular

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
whaleB1whalingwharfwhatA1

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