Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To make secure by lashing.
- transitive verb To take up the slack of; tighten.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A violent fit of rage.
- To strike; smite.
- Nautical, to secure by many turns of a lashing.
- To fly into a passion.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb (Naut.) To draw together; to bind with a view to secure and strengthen, as a vessel by passing cables around it; to tighten; as a tackle by drawing the lines together.
- transitive verb To brace by drawing together, as the cords of a drum.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb nautical To
draw together tightly. - noun informal
frappuccino
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- verb take up the slack of
- verb make secure by lashing
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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 His intern, January, has been conscripted by Suzanne Padilla, a reporter who has been possessed by similar alien forces as Mitchell, to steal his frap-gun.
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Just as long as she gets onstage, exposes her frap bloat and lipsyncs horribly, I'm all for it.
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At 2, my daughter would ask for "decaff vanilla frap."
We Are Raising the Starbucks Generation jodifur 2008
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Decided around lunchtime that I wanted some Starbucks coffee, and more specifically a frappucino, and even more specifically a Pumpkin Spice frap, so I made the trek across the street to get a cup.
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I stop at Starbucks on the way back and get a Pumpkin Spice frap, take a few more pictures of Times Square, and then head into the hotel.
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His brother came in to get something and decided to get a green tea frap.
dulligirl Diary Entry dulligirl 2005
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And your double venti triple frap half-caf twist of lime thing won't cost you four bucks.
The Palace 2005
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And your double venti triple frap half-caf twist of lime thing won't cost you four bucks.
April 2005 2005
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I said any schmuck who ordered fried shrimp and chocolate frap in a Jewish deli can't be all that bad!
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MATTHAU: Well, I thought it was a Jewish delicatessen in Brentwood, where he was ordering fried shrimp and a chocolate frap.
chained_bear commented on the word frap
"...he reflected that if she could not be provided with new knees in the course of a thorough refit he might eventually have to frap her whole carcass, winding cable round and round until it looked like an enormous chrysalis."
—Patrick O'Brian, The Ionian Mission, 234
February 14, 2008
yarb commented on the word frap
I spent many happy hours frapping as a boy.
February 22, 2008
reesetee commented on the word frap
Did you frap carcasses?
February 22, 2008
yarb commented on the word frap
Carcasses, cars, asses: you name it, I frapped it.
February 22, 2008
chained_bear commented on the word frap
But did you frap gammon?
Dude. That's frapped.
February 22, 2008
yarb commented on the word frap
We were always frapping gammon, my pals and I. "Do you fancy a game of frapgammon?" we would ask each other, when the tedium of our drab nonage grew unbearable.
Do you play frapgammon, cb?
February 22, 2008
reesetee commented on the word frap
How about frapminton? Did you play frapminton? It's a frappin' good game.
February 22, 2008
chained_bear commented on the word frap
My favorite things to frap are bowsprits and jibbooms. But frapgammon was always a favorite. A greasy favorite, but still.
Moo.
February 22, 2008
yarb commented on the word frap
At length, John, the tall Frenchman, the head of the starboard watch (and a better sailor never stepped upon a deck), sprang aloft, and, by the help of his long arms and legs, succeeded, after a hard struggle,-- the sail blowing over the yard-arm to leeward, and the skysail adrift directly over his head,-- in smothering it and frapping it with long pieces of sinnet.
- Richard Henry Dana Jr., Two Years Before the Mast, ch. 25
September 9, 2008
chained_bear commented on the word frap
See also frapping.
October 13, 2008