Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Soft or semiliquid food, as for infants.
- noun Material lacking real value or substance.
- noun Slang Money and favors obtained as political patronage.
- noun A teat or nipple.
- noun Something resembling a teat or nipple, such as a steep hill.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To feed with pap.
- noun Papa; father.
- noun A short cylindrical projection used to furnish a hold for the lathe-center on a easting which is to be turned; a socket; a tit.
- noun Soft food for infants, usually made of bread boiled or softened with water or milk.
- noun Hence The emoluments of public office, as salaries, fees, or perquisites.
- noun The pulp of fruit, or pulp of any kind.
- noun A teat; a nipple; the breast of a woman.
- noun A conical hill resembling a nipple or teat: as, the Paps of Jura (an island west of Scotland.).
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Anat.) A nipple; a mammilla; a teat.
- noun A rounded, nipplelike hill or peak; anything resembling a nipple in shape; a mamelon.
- noun A soft food for infants, made of bread boiled or softened in milk or water.
- noun Any speech, writing, or idea lacking substance, or of trivial content; oversimplified, trite, or worthless ideas.
- noun Colloq. & Contemptuous Nourishment or support from official patronage.
- noun The pulp of fruit.
- transitive verb To feed with pap.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun uncountable Food in the form of a soft
paste , often aporridge , especially as given to very young children. - noun uncountable, colloquial
Nonsense . - noun South Africa
Porridge . - adjective slang, South Africa Spineless, wet, without character.
- verb transitive, obsolete To
feed with pap. - adjective : Flat
- noun
Pap smear - verb Of a
paparazzo , to take asurreptitious photograph of (someone, especially a celebrity) without their consent.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the small projection of a mammary gland
- noun a diet that does not require chewing; advised for those with intestinal disorders
- noun worthless or oversimplified ideas
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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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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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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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.
Why Are Women More Likely to Be Obese Than Men? - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com 2007
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The man in the road was "pap" -- tight -- and they were trying to get him home.
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The man in the road was "pap" -- tight -- and they were trying to get him home.
A Knight of the Cumberland John Fox 1891
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Apparently pap as in pap smear is unrelated: it’s short for Georgios Papanikolaou, the inventor of the Pap smear.
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New guidelines out today for cervical cancer screenings also know as pap test.
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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.
No Place Left to Bury the Dead Nicole Itano 2007
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Zack knows about the so-called pap just as he knows where my tattoo was.
T-Backs, T-shirts, Coat, and Suit E.L. Konigsborg 1993
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Zack knows about the so-called pap just as he knows where my tattoo was.
T-Backs, T-shirts, Coat, and Suit E.L. Konigsborg 1993
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Addison Rae can be annoying sometimes, and the pap walks are a perfect example. They are a performance for Zoomers, but Zoomers are already buying Rae’s schtick, so what is the point?
We are living in a post-Haim world Clare 2025
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I keep reading on how she’s going on pap walks since the Matty engagement, so I’m confused about what exactly that translates to.
ELI5 what’s a pap walk? Megs_nd_life 2025
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This immediately set off an alarm for a certain set of pop culture-inclined internet detectives, who are obsessed with calling out these kinds of presumably staged paparazzi photos. “I’ve never seen such an obvious pap walk in my life,” said one Tiktok user analyzing the photos.
Meet the photo agency that turns celeb watchers into conspiracy theorists Kyndall Cunningham 2024
bilby commented on the word pap
'noun Something resembling a teat or nipple, such as a steep hill.'
June 23, 2020