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zap

  [zap] verb, zapped, zap⋅ping, noun Informal.
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–verb (used with object)
1. to kill or shoot.
2. to attack, defeat, or destroy with sudden speed and force.
3. to bombard with electrical current, radiation, laser beams, etc.
4. to strike or jolt suddenly and forcefully.
5. to cook in a microwave oven.
6. to skip over or delete (TV commercials), as by switching channels or pushing a fast-forward button on a playback device: We recorded the show on our VCR but zapped all the commercials.
7. to add a sudden infusion of energy, verve, color, attractiveness, or the like (often fol. by up): just the thing to zap up your spring wardrobe.
–verb (used without object)
8. to move quickly, forcefully, or destructively: high-voltage currents zapping overhead.
–noun
9. force, energy, or drive; zip.
10. a jolt or charge, as or as if of electricity.
11. a forceful and sudden blow, hit, or attack.
12. any method of political activism, usually of a disruptive nature.
Origin:
1940–45, Americanism; imit.

Related forms:
zapper, noun
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Slang Dictionary
zap

  1. tv.
    to shock someone. : That fake snake zapped me for a minute.
  2. tv.
    to kill someone. : The stress from it all nearly zapped him.
  3. tv.
    to impress someone. : My big idea really zapped the boss. I may get a raise.
  4. tv.
    to stun someone with an imaginary ray gun. : He zapped me with a water gun.
  5. exclam.
    Wow! (Usually Zap!) : He said, “Zap!” indicating that he really liked the present, I guess.
  6. tv.
    to defeat someone or a team. : Fred zapped Britney in the spelling bee.
  7. in.
    to zipor move to somewhere very fast. : He's zapping to the drugstore for some aspirin.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Word Origin & History

zap 
1929 (sound effect), 1942 (v.), comic strip word (especially from "Buck Rogers in the Twenty-Fifth Century"), of imitative origin. Meaning "to erase electronically" is 1982.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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