zap
pronunciation
How to pronounce zap in British English:
UK [zæp]
How to pronounce zap in American English:
US [zæp]
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- Verb:
- strike suddenly and with force
- kill with or as if with a burst of gunfire or electric current or as if by shooting
- strike at with firepower or bombs
- cook or heat in a microwave oven
Word Origin
- zap
- 1929 as a sound, 1942 as a verb; a comic strip word (especially from "Buck Rogers in the Twenty-Fifth Century"), of imitative origin. Meaning "erase electronically" is 1982. Related: Zapped; zapping.
Example
- 1. Think they really zap bugs ?
- 2. I saw this nutty old woman and zap !
- 3. He can zap you in your worst moments and make you kind .
- 4. Plasmas engineered to zap microorganisms aren 't new .
- 5. Have you see him zap around town on his new motor bike ?