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🤝 A friendly gesture 🤝 To greet with touch 🐟 A freshwater fish 🎣 To fish lightly
to dap

to dap

1 8.8
To touch someone lightly to greet them, often by bumping fists
  • verb
  • /dæp/
  • Slang
translation icon : chocar los puños con
  • At the reunion, friends greeted each other with a quick dap instead of a handshake.

Is it are y'all dapping up or it's we're good?

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Examples

  • Is it are y'all dapping up or it's we're good?

    The Pivot Podcast

  • To show his respect, he leaned in to dap his mentor during the ceremony.

  • You said you liked dapping him, which was dodgy.

  • So I just shook a hand that like within a week dapped up Stone Cold.

  • "Causing Mr. Maraj to smirk and dap Drake.

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  • When we meet, we always dap each other as a sign of friendship.

Synonyms

to boop
vsto dap
  • Texting
1 8.1

To touch a nose or cheek lightly as a playful act

touches briefly as a friendly greeting or sign of respect
to backslap
vsto dap
6.4

To pat someone on the back to show approval or friendliness

touches lightly with a brief hand or fist gesture as a greeting
to boop someone on the forehead
vsto dap
  • Informal
8.4

To tap someone's forehead lightly to be playful or show love

serves as a brief respectful greeting rather than an affectionate gesture

How Intimate

to hug
336 1.0
to dap
  • Slang
1 8.8
to shake hands
138 1.0
to nod
442 1.0
wave
127 1.0

Surface Forms

dap infinitive
dapped past
dapped past participle
dapping present participle
daps third person singular

Etymology

Dap as a verb comes from the same slang for those special handshakes and is like the word tap, meaning 'to touch lightly', so to dap someone is to give them a quick, friendly touch as a sign of respect.