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One of the oldest and simplest tricks in the book, dapping is now dismissed as a technique for children and simpletons.
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In Ireland "dapping" with the green drake or the daddy-longlegs is practised from boats on most of the big loughs.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1 Various
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“And next time you rob somebody, get ya damn nappy-ass weave done,” Sensation said, laughing, dapping me, putting her pistol back in her purse.
Show Stoppah Thomas Slater 2011
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“And next time you rob somebody, get ya damn nappy-ass weave done,” Sensation said, laughing, dapping me, putting her pistol back in her purse.
Show Stoppah Thomas Slater 2011
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Cecil is banished until I can be bustled into bed, by which time I am deploying what little energy I have left to keep sneezing while dapping at my nose in what I hope is a convincing manner.
Secret History of Elizabeth Tudor, Vampire Slayer Lucy Weston 2011
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Cecil is banished until I can be bustled into bed, by which time I am deploying what little energy I have left to keep sneezing while dapping at my nose in what I hope is a convincing manner.
Secret History of Elizabeth Tudor, Vampire Slayer Lucy Weston 2011
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When an author is reading an excerpt and the audience is dapping their eyes, that's another thing.
Edwidge Danticat: Reading full of tears Jacqueline Trescott 2010
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Needless to say he spent a lot of time bent double under the foliage dapping in headwaters 4 feet wide.
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Just dapping a lure over the side almost guaranteed a fish.
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Needless to say he spent a lot of time bent double under the foliage dapping in headwaters 4 feet wide.
reesetee commented on the word dapping
skipping or bouncing stones across the surface of a lake or other body of water
February 23, 2007