Meaning of Zap | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A sound made by a sudden release of electricity or some similar energy.
   colloquial
2. A city and town in North Dakota.
3. An electric shock.
   colloquial
4. A raucous public demonstration designed to embarrass a public figure or celebrity as a form of political activism.
5. The act of heating something in a microwave oven.
   slang

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Examples

“You might feel a little zap touching a metal doorknob when the air is dry.”

“Black AIDS activists were caught in the middle of a nearly yearlong series of zaps.”

“When a zap at Brooklyn's Board of Education opened no dialogue on discrimination suffered by gay teachers, GAA targeted the BOE offices on April 13.”

“The guest immediately asked the bartender to give his drink a zap in the microwave oven behind him […]”

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