zap
Part of speech: noun
verb
intj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: government
military
politics
war
Etymology: 1920s, American English, of imitative origin.
Inflected forms:
form: zaps
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: zaps
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: zapping
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: zapped
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: zapped
pos: verb
tags: past
form: zap!
pos: intj
tags: canonical
Senses:
gloss: A sound made by a sudden release of electricity or some similar energy.
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
gloss: An electric shock.
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
examples: You might feel a little zap touching a metal doorknob when the air is dry.
gloss: A raucous public demonstration designed to embarrass a public figure or celebrity as a form of political activism.
pos: noun
examples: Black AIDS activists were caught in the middle of a nearly yearlong series of zaps.
When a zap at Brooklyn's Board of Education opened no dialogue on discrimination suffered by gay teachers, GAA targeted the BOE offices on April 13.
gloss: The act of heating something in a microwave oven.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: The guest immediately asked the bartender to give his drink a zap in the microwave oven behind him […]
gloss: To make a zap sound.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To use a remote control to repeatedly fast-forward or change channels on a television.
pos: verb
gloss: To strike (something or someone) with electricity or energy, as by shooting.
pos: verb
examples: They spent the whole movie zapping bad guys into oblivion.
gloss: To kill; to eliminate.
pos: verb
tags: US
slang
transitive
examples: Says a U. S. officer: "We zapped the enemy, now we intend to stick around. […]
gloss: To do away with something.
pos: verb
tags: slang
transitive
gloss: To enliven.
pos: verb
tags: slang
transitive
gloss: To move or transport (something) in a brief time frame.
pos: verb
tags: slang
transitive
gloss: To damage (especially electronics) with electrostatic discharge.
pos: verb
tags: slang
transitive
examples: I think they zapped the processor.
gloss: To heat (something) in a microwave oven.
pos: verb
tags: slang
transitive
examples: If it's not warm in the middle, zap it some more.
gloss: To delete or discard (electronic media).
pos: verb
tags: slang
transitive
examples: They zapped a lot of files before realizing they had not backed up lately.
gloss: To further energize or charge (magnetic material).
pos: verb
tags: slang
transitive
examples: They zapped my motor's magnets.
gloss: To photocopy.
pos: verb
tags: Singapore
informal
transitive
examples: Got to go and zap this document now.
gloss: To participate in a zap (protest) against.
pos: verb
examples: We are periodically assailed with appeals to help block this or censor that or zap the other media presentation which one or other of us thinks (often with justice) is injurious to gays or others.
gloss: Representing the sound or action of a zap.
pos: intj
examples: Then the computer went zap and I lost all my work.
Zap is a comic-book hero - Zap! Powie! Kazoom!; why have you retired, Zap, when we need you so much?
Derived words: brain zap
zap 'em up
zap over
zap up
zip zap zop
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