lap
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1.0
- noun
- /læp/
:
regazo
- The little girl sat on her grandmother's lap while they read a story together.
- hands in one's lap
- book on one's lap
- head in one's lap
Oh my gosh, he's on my lap and he's going nuts.
- Oh my gosh, he's on my lap and he's going nuts.
- Sorry, Nala's like sat on my lap getting cozy.
- She was asleep on my lap the whole time I was filming.
- And once they're in our laps, they're like, they just sleep.
- And you can go sit on his lap as you love to do.
- I threw up in my own lap behind the wheel on the freeway.
- And so here is what being a little lap dog sounds like.
- It will lie down on her lap and fall asleep.
Examples
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The mother picked up the little boy, put him on her lap and said to him.
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Mabel pulled her purse to her lap and began rummaging for her cigarettes.
Academic text (1991) -
And lay his head on her lap like the little boy in you.
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I would be scared to sit on her lap, but I would.
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Do you want me to sit on your lap?
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Or I had my head in her lap, and she was sitting upright against the bed.
Academic text (2015) -
Even in lectures, I still like to have a book in my lap or be writing.
Academic text (2004) -
He'd sit in bed with that thing on his lap and watch himself some TV.
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Vespasia sat back and folded her hands in her lap, her eyes on his face.
Fiction book (1990) -
I don't know, I've just been sitting here with fiddle on my lap for so long.
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Etymology
Lap for the flat area on your thighs comes from an old word meaning 'flap' or 'fold', like the loose cloth or skin that lies over your legs. So a book or a cat sits on your lap because it is the folded, resting place on your body.