How to Use dap in a Sentence

dap

1 of 2 noun

• Wearing orange and blue still elicits nods, smiles and daps from strangers.
  — Ashley Fetters Maloy, Washington Post, 18 June 2026
• For one new Giant, there likely won’t be a shortage of daps and hugs with the opposition.
  — Justice Delos Santos, Mercury News, 22 Mar. 2026
• Even Hakimi didn't complain, instead giving van de Ven a dap of respect.
  — Andrew Greif, NBC news, 30 June 2026
• While Adames now wears different colors, there will likely be no shortage of hugs and daps exchanged over the next three days.
  — Justice Delos Santos, Mercury News, 22 Aug. 2025
• As the third quarter ended, instead of handing out daps and making small talk with her teammates, Jocytė started her warmups.
  — Nathan Canilao, Mercury News, 26 May 2026

dap

2 of 2 verb

• The stars dapped up and carried on.
  — Bennett Durando, Denver Post, 4 Apr. 2026
• On line, a few people from the neighborhood come by and dap them up.
  — Alphonse Pierre, Pitchfork, 17 Oct. 2025
• One-by-one, each Wizards player dapped Poole up, spoke with him and gave him a hug.
  — Josh Robbins, New York Times, 9 Mar. 2026
• Mamdani is now one of the most famous politicians in the country; people dap him up, shake his hand, roll down their car windows for him.
  — Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 6 Nov. 2025
• Kendrick Lamar even stopped to dap him up on his way to accepting best rap album for GNX, the first award of the telecast.
  — Kyle Denis, Billboard, 24 Feb. 2026
• But the Saturday Night Live alum can’t concentrate, dapping her face with a towel.
  — Vanessa Etienne, PEOPLE, 9 Dec. 2025
• Just over eight minutes remained on the clock in the fourth quarter, but Edwards was already waving the white flag and dapping up the Spurs' bench.
  — Austin Perry Outkick, FOXNews.com, 16 May 2026
• Willy Adames, as is his wont, ripped off Bailey’s jersey, the two emphatically dapping hands and bumping chests.
  — Justice Delos Santos, Mercury News, 13 Sep. 2025
• There are big-time rituals, like communion, and small-time ones, like shaking hands, or dapping up, or standing at the front of a conference room and clearing your throat.
  — Joshua Rothman, New Yorker, 14 Nov. 2025
• The Friday before the election, Mamdani made an hours-long trek down the spine of Manhattan, dapping up pedestrians and outdoor diners.
  — Mark Chiusano, Time, 14 Aug. 2025
• In a tunnel as both teams prepared to take the pitch for the pomp of the two national anthems, out of view of the crowd, Norwegian star Erling Haaland was hugging or dapping his opponents.
  — Miami Herald, 12 July 2026
• Once his former position coach, Eric Koehler, located him on the sideline, Koehler paused individual drills for him and the current crop of U tight ends to dap him up.
  — Andy Greder, Twin Cities, 9 Apr. 2026
• Rizzo remains close with several of his former teammates, including Volpe and Aaron Judge, and could be seen hugging and dapping up Yankees players and staffers before the game.
  — Gary Phillips, New York Daily News, 29 June 2026
• After Marcus Smart’s three-point prayer rattled off the rim and Austin Reaves’ tip rolled off, LeBron James dapped up every Oklahoma City player on the court at the time one by one.
  — Los Angeles Times, 12 May 2026