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or whap
whopped or whapped; whopping or whapping
Synonyms of whap
Examples of whap in a Sentence
Verb (2)
despite high hopes, the hometown favorites got whopped again
maybe if that television station replaced its obnoxious news anchor, it wouldn't get consistently whopped in the ratings
Noun
the doctor gave my knee a little whop with his mallet to test my reflexes
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Abraham Nussbaum, STAT, 6 Aug. 2024
But in the sixth, the Marlins eked out another run, and in the seventh, pinch-hitter Jorge Soler whapped a two-out, two-run homer to dead center to put Miami ahead.
—Susan Slusser, San Francisco Chronicle, 17 Apr. 2023
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Verb
By the end of the case, the patient’s pheochromocytoma had been removed, my knuckles were bloodied, and my thoughts of being a surgeon had been whapped out of me.
—Abraham Nussbaum, STAT, 6 Aug. 2024
But in the sixth, the Marlins eked out another run, and in the seventh, pinch-hitter Jorge Soler whapped a two-out, two-run homer to dead center to put Miami ahead.
—Susan Slusser, San Francisco Chronicle, 17 Apr. 2023
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“Whap.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/whap. Accessed 18 Jun. 2026.
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