Definitions

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun rare Yelping.

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Examples

  • How many batteries are made for the Iphone for wapping out are there after 2 years?

    Palm Pre: 3 Things We Like & 3 Things We Don’t 2009

  • With Labour debt at 23 million and the Tories a wapping 35 million in the red, only tax payer help, or the promise of peerages and such will prevent the creditors calling in the receivers.

    State Funding Here We Come 2007

  • Krzerszonese Milesia asundurst Sirdarthar Woolwichleagues, good tomkeys years somewhile in Crimealian wall samewhere in Ayerland, during me weeping stillstumms over the freshprosts of Eastchept and the dangling garters of Marrowbone and daring my wapping stiltstunts on Bostion Moss, old stile and new style and heave a lep onwards.

    Finnegans Wake 2006

  • _And wapping dell that niggles well_ = a harlot or mistress who "spreads" acceptably.

    Musa Pedestris - Three Centuries of Canting Songs and Slang Rhymes [1536 - 1896] John S. Farmer

  • Buss her, wap in rogues 'rum lingo, for, O, my dimber wapping dell!

    Ulysses James Joyce 1911

  • 'Ay, and have reason to know her,' said the jockey, putting his hand into his left waistcoat-pocket, as if to feel for something, 'for she gave me what I believe few men could do -- a most confounded wapping.

    The Romany Rye A Sequel to 'Lavengro' George Henry Borrow 1842

  • Currently as of 27th April 2011 they are tracking 14116 apps in the UK Marketplace with a wapping 141 new apps added in the last 24 hours.

    Site Home Eric Nelson UK 2011

  • Apparently deputy serjeant at arms ditched his tights and mace to deliver the summons to wapping. he had to take the tube after allThu Jul 14 14:48:29 via web Cathy Newman cathynewman

    NYT > Home Page By ROBERT MACKEY 2011

  • I confirm that whilst we are in advanced discussions with a potential operator nothing has yet been finalised. oh, i do hope i can stop shlepping over to wapping but i fear it will be tesco - they will open in any discarded cardboard box given the chance ...

    London SE1 community website 2010

  • The advance of obscure trots into Broadcasting House and wapping isn't as astonishing as it might appear.

    New Humanist Blog 2009

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  • this could've stayed innocuous if the internet hadn't happened

    September 23, 2009

  • *scampers off to add it to "How do you like Kipling?" list*

    September 23, 2009