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Is pap a Scrabble word?

Yes, pap is a valid Scrabble word! Worth 7 points in Scrabble.

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  • Scrabble US/Canada (OTCWL) Yes
  • Scrabble UK (SOWPODS) Yes
  • Wordle No
  • Words With Friends Yes

What is the meaning of pap?

Definition

noun (English)

1. (uncountable) Food in the form of a soft paste, often a porridge, especially as given to very young children.Examples: "Pap can be made from bread boiled in milk or water."uncountable

2. (uncountable, colloquial) Pablum or nonsense.colloquialuncountable

3. (South Africa) Porridge.Examples: "Pap and wors are traditionally eaten at a braai."South-Africacountableuncountable

4. (Nigeria, West Africa) A fermented cereal pudding made from corn, sorghum, or milletAfricaNigeriaWestcountableuncountable

5. (informal, derogatory) Support from official patronage.Examples: "Treasury pap"countablederogatoryinformaluncountable

verb (English)

1. (transitive, obsolete) To feed with pap.Examples: "But I'll so pap him up - nothing too dear for him : What a sweet scent he has !"obsoletetransitive

noun (English)

1. (archaic) A female breast or nipple.Examples: "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."archaic

2. (now rare, archaic) A man's breast.Examples: "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."archaic

adj (English)

1. (South Africa, slang) Weak, feeble; lacking substance.Examples: "His chest hangs like soft tits in his vest. He is pap. I could easily hit him. I could kill him if I wanted to."South-Africaslang

2. (South Africa, slang) Spineless, wet, without character.Examples: "He is so pap and boring."South-Africaslang

3. (South Africa, slang) Flat.Examples: "I got a puncture and the wheel went pap."South-Africaslang

noun (English)

1. (informal) Clipping of paparazzo.Examples: "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”."abbreviationalt-ofclippinginformal

verb (English)

1. (informal, usually passive voice) To take a surreptitious photograph of (someone, especially a celebrity) without their consent.Examples: "Look, that pop star’s been papped in her bikini again!"; "The star of Netflix’s Wednesday, 20-year-old Jenna Ortega (another Gen Z actor) was recently papped holding an iPhone and chuffing on a straight cigarette (the fact that this was a pap photo is all the more throwback)."; "We know everyone else knew he was a Tier 1 sex offender because when the pair got papped on a walk in Central Park, the New York Post published the picture with a front page headline even Andrew could understand: “PRINCE & PERV”."informal

Definition source: Wiktionary

What Scrabble words can I make with the letters in "pap"?

How many Scrabble points is the word "pap"?

Scrabble
7 points
P3
A1
P3
Words With Friends
9 points
P4
A1
P4

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