or wap, woppe, whap, subs. (old literary: now colloquial).—A blow. As verb = to beat.

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  c. 1360.  Alliterative Poems (MORRIS) [T. L. KINGTON-OLIPHANT, The New English, i. 63. We find the new verbs shout … WAPPE, our WHOP].

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  c. 1362.  York Plays, XXIII. 326.

        For a WHAPP so he whyned and weasid
And ȝitt no lasshe to þe lurdan was lente.

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  1862.  THACKERAY, The Adventures of Philip, xviii. Bunch had put his boys to a famous school, where they might WHOP the French boys and learn all the modern languages.

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  Intj. (American).—WHACK! (q.v.), WHIP! (q.v.), BANG! (q.v.).

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  1835.  CROCKETT, Tour to the North and Down East, 108. But a day of payment is coming;… and if the money ain’t forthcoming, out comes a Randolph writ … and WHAP goes your property and liberty.

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  1843–4.  HALIBURTON (‘Sam Slick’), The Attaché, ii. I began to think smokin’ warn’t so bad after all, when WHAP went my cigar right out of my mouth into my bosom.

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