sap
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9.1
- noun
- /sæp/
- Offensive
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- Don't let that salesman trick you into buying a car; don't be a sap.
Nick Jonas is the SAP, right.
- Nick Jonas is the SAP, right.
- And that poor SAP doesn't know that he's an Android yet.
- Unlike all these other saps, by the way, who are on vacation, Not us.
- But people around are saying, look, look at this poor SAP.
Examples
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- You poor sap, you love her.
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Don't be a sap.
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His dad was such a sap, but he was a good sap.
Fiction book (1996) -
- Oh, you poor sap.
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Like a sap, i believed every silly story i heard.
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No, no, no, no, I'm just a tired old sap.
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Are you a sap, Marty?
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I won't play the sap for you!
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Yeah, what a sap I was to go into The Bing Boys.
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Brad was a sap, you weren't.
Synonyms
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1.4
A person who makes poor decisions and is easily tricked
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7.0
A person who is easily tricked
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7.3
A person who is not very smart and trusts people easily
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9.9
A person who is foolish and easily tricked
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9.9
A person who is easily tricked and used by others
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9.1
A person who is easily fooled and trusts others too much
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9.9
A person who acts silly and does not think carefully
A person who acts like a fool and makes poor decisions
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Etymology
Sap — A helpful way to remember sap meaning 'a person who is easily deceived' is to link it to the plant sap ('juice'). If someone was said to have little 'sap', they were thought weak or naive, so they were easy to trick.