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wap

[wop, wap] verb (used with object), verb (used without object), wapped, wap⋅ping, noun

WAP

wireless application protocol: a protocol for transferring documents, esp. Web pages, over a computer network to cellular phones and other hand-held wireless devices.

Origin:
1995–2000

whop

[hwop, wop] verb, whopped, whop⋅ping, noun Informal.
–verb (used with object)
1. to strike forcibly.
2. to defeat soundly, as in a contest.
3. to put or pull violently; whip: to whop out a book.
–verb (used without object)
4. to plump suddenly down; flop.
–noun
5. a forcible blow.
6. the sound made by it.
7. a bump; heavy fall.
Also, whap, wap.


Origin:
1350–1400; ME, var. of wap
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Word Origin & History

wap  (n.)
"a hit, a blow," c.1400, probably of imitative origin. The verb (c.1375) originally meant "to throw quickly or with violence," and in slang c.1560-1730 it meant "to copulate" (usually used in ref. to women).

whop 
"to beat, strike," c.1440, of imitative origin; cf. Welsh chwap "a stroke," also of imitative origin; cf. also wap.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Computing Dictionary

WAP
Wireless Application Protocol

The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing, © 1993-2007 Denis Howe
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Abbreviations & Acronyms
WAP
wireless application protocol
The American Heritage® Abbreviations Dictionary, Third Edition
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