Meaning of Pap | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Food in the form of a soft paste, often a porridge, especially as given to very young children.
   uncountable
2. A female breast or nipple.
   archaic
3. Alternative letter-case form of Pap (“Pap smear”).
   alt-of
4. Clipping of paparazzo.
   abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, informal
5. Pa; father.
   informal
6. Initialism of People's Action Party.
   abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
7. polyfluoroalkyl phosphate ester
8. Ellipsis of Pap smear.
   abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis
9. Pablum or nonsense.
   colloquial, uncountable
10. A man's breast.
    archaic
11. Pay And Pay (nickname for the People's Action Party)
    Singlish, derogatory
12. Initialism of password authentication protocol.
    abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
13. Porridge.
    South-Africa, countable, uncountable
14. A rounded, nipple-like hill or peak.
15. Initialism of People's Armed Police.
    abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
16. Abbreviation of past active participle.
    abbreviation, alt-of
17. A fermented cereal pudding made from corn, sorghum, or millet
    Africa, Nigeria, West, countable, uncountable
18. Abbreviation of present active participle.
    abbreviation, alt-of
19. Support from official patronage.
    countable, derogatory, informal, uncountable
20. Initialism of principle of alternate possibilities.
    abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
21. The pulp of fruit.
    countable, uncountable
22. Initialism of prostatic acid phosphatase.
    abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
23. Initialism of participatory anthropic principle.
    abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
24. Acronym of positive airway pressure.
    abbreviation, acronym, alt-of
25. A positive airway pressure machine, a PAP device.
    broadly

Equivalents

Examples

“Pap can be made from bread boiled in milk or water.”

“Pap and wors are traditionally eaten at a braai.”

“Treasury pap”

“I hold it not amisse to take Pills in the pap of a rosted apple.”

“A child's head is naturally as soft as the pap of an apple.”

“But th'other rather higher did arise, / And her two lilly paps aloft displayd, / And all, that might his melting hart entise / To her delights, she vnto him bewrayd […]”

“they doe not onely weare jewels at their noses, in their lip and cheekes, and in their toes, but also big wedges of gold through their paps [translating tetins] and buttocks[…].”

“And it came to pass, as he spake these things, a certain woman of the company lifted up her voice, and said unto him, Blessed is the womb that bare thee, and the paps which thou hast sucked.”

“I took the dagger out and kissed it. / Like a cat’s tongue that daintily laps, / I slipped it in between her paps.”

“Adrianus the Emperour made his Physition to marke and take the just compasse of the mortall place about his pap, that so his aime might not faile him, to whom he had given charge to kill him.”

“the paps of Jura”

“As he made his way from the London hotel to his car, the singer threatened to beat up a pap who got in his way.”

“We turn back onto the main road and I'm relieved to not see any paps. They've got to be somewhere though. They don't just leave.”

“The only aspect of his mother’s death that he finds unforgettable is the identity of those who caused it: the press and the paps, variously referred to as ghouls, pustules, dogs, weasels, idiots and sadists, who after “torturing” his mother “would come for me”.”

“Pap he hadn't been seen for more than a year, and that was comfortable for me; I didn't want to see him no more. He used to always whale me when he was sober and could get his hands on me; though I used to take to the woods most of the time when he was around. Well, about this time he was found in the river drowned, about twelve mile above town, so people said. They judged it was him, anyway; said this drowned man was just his size, and was ragged, and had uncommon long hair—which was all like pap—but they couldn't make nothing out of the face, because it had been in the water so long it warn't much like a face at all.”

“@Gary, are you a PAP agent? ... =) trying to incite rebellion and revolution on this site so that the govt will have an excuse to take down this site?”

“If you have any abnormal symptoms, such as spotting between periods or bleeding after intercourse, keep pursuing the cause even if your last Pap was normal.”

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