plap

English

Etymology

Imitative, or perhaps a blend of plash +‎ flap.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /plæp/
• Rhymes: -æp

Verb

plap (third-person singular simple present plaps, present participle plapping, simple past and past participle plapped)

1. To plash; fall with a plashing sound.
   • 1859, William Makepeace Thackeray, The Roundabout Papers:

     On this day it was so cold that the white bears winked their pink eyes, as they plapped up and down by their pool, and seemed to say, " Aha, this weather reminds us of dear home!

   • 2010, Joanne Harris, Blackberry Wine:

     He'd have to look up, have to look— A stone plapped into a greasy puddle not two feet away.

   • 2015, Harold Pinter, The Dwarfs:

     The crowd humped together, squealing, around her, to the floor; the room plapped into halflight, low from two wall lamps, glowing on her legs, over the ducking heads.

2. (sexual slang, Internet slang) To fuck.
3. (sexual slang, Internet slang) To hit one's testicles in masturbation or sex.

Noun

plap (plural plaps)

1. The sound of a plap or a plash.
2. (sexual slang, Internet slang) The sound of the tissue of two people clapping against each other, particularly of the buttocks or hips, by a single intense thrust of penetrative sex.

See also

• plop

Anagrams

• appl, ppl. a., palp, Appl., appl., Lapp