pap
IPA: pˈæp
noun
- (uncountable) Food in the form of a soft paste, often a porridge, especially as given to very young children.
- (uncountable, colloquial) Nonsense; pablum.
- (South Africa) Porridge.
- (informal, derogatory) Support from official patronage.
- The pulp of fruit.
- (archaic) A female breast or nipple.
- (now rare, archaic) A man's breast.
- A rounded, nipple-like hill or peak.
- (informal) Pa; father.
- (Singapore, Singlish, derogatory) Pay And Pay (nickname for the People's Action Party)
- (organic chemistry) polyfluoroalkyl phosphate ester
- (philosophy) principle of alternate possibilities
- participatory anthropic principle
- (by extension) A positive airway pressure machine, a PAP device
- Alternative letter-case form of Pap (“Pap smear”).
- (informal) Clipping of paparazzo. [A freelance photographer who sells photographs of celebrities to the media, especially one who pursues celebrities and attempts to obtain candid photographs.]
- (Singapore) Initialism of People's Action Party.
- (PRC) Initialism of People's Armed Police.
- (grammar) Abbreviation of past active participle.
- (grammar) Abbreviation of present active participle.
- (medicine) Acronym of positive airway pressure. (PAP ventilation)
- Ellipsis of Pap smear. [(chiefly gynaecology) A screening test meant to detect pre-cancerous and cancerous cells by taking a sample (‘smear’) of cells from the cervix.]
verb
- (transitive, obsolete) To feed with pap.
- (informal, usually passive voice) To take a surreptitious photograph of (someone, especially a celebrity) without their consent.
- (acronym, Internet slang, text messaging) post a picture
- (Internet slang, text messaging) Alternative letter-case form of PAP (“post a picture”). [(acronym, Internet slang, text messaging) post a picture]
adjective
- (South Africa, slang) Weak, feeble; lacking substance.
- (South Africa, slang) Spineless, wet, without character.
- (South Africa, slang) Flat.
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Examples of "pap" in Sentences
- Zack knows about the so-called pap just as he knows where my tattoo was.
- New guidelines out today for cervical cancer screenings also know as pap test.
- The man in the road was "pap" -- tight -- and they were trying to get him home.
- Apparently pap as in pap smear is unrelated: it’s short for Georgios Papanikolaou, the inventor of the Pap smear.
- This was, we were told, because the staple food, pap, is almost 100 percent carbs, which men can apparently digest or burn more quickly than women.
- Each month after she received her pension, Gogo bought them a large bag of finely ground white cornmeal, called mealie meal, which was cooked into a stiff porridge called pap.
- This curious concoction of meaningless pap is heartening, in that it reinforces my conviction that those who like to trumpet their freedom from religion are themselves slaves to ignorance and irrationality.
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