to zap
- verb
- /zæp/
- NSFW
- But we have our immune systems that find the cancer and ZAP it before it gets it gets uncontrollable.
- zap viruses
- zap bugs
- zap unwanted hair
He should be able to like ZAP everybody with no problem.
- He should be able to like ZAP everybody with no problem.
- So when I'm charged it zaps me right in the ear.
- They are called Zappic electric bug zapping rocket.
- Came back home and, you know, got zapped with the voltage, kind of reset everything.
- I think you're zapping the whole network and that's going to be pretty difficult without zapping other memories.
- But we have our immune systems that find the cancer and ZAP it before it gets it gets uncontrollable.
- So you know, you you ZAP the the oligarchs wallets and their calculation.
- But at like if you look at a chip, it is so complicated that trying to like ZAP electrodes in the right order, literally impossible.
- And in those cases, then if it's needed, they can use a laser to just ZAP it and tack it down so that you don't develop a retinal attachment.
- Most of the time they're either going to eat us or ZAP us with a rays or or do other or do other things that that do experiments on humans.
Examples
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The battle plan is to get them all into one area and then zap them!
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Then press the cannon button and zap!
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We gotta zap 'em before they call the cops!
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You could zap his chest.
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Can you please use that wand to zap him back to me?
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Anything touches the wires, zap.
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I'm gonna zap that sucker to bits!
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Ivan holds his arm out, zaps Alpha with an electrical charge.
Fiction book (1995) -
Snickers zaps Hawk in the leg with his strange-noised device.
Fiction book (1991) -
The scientist used the laser to zap the bacteria in the petri dish.
Synonyms
To kill or seriously hurt someone by passing electricity through their body
To destroy something completely as if by a powerful weapon
To destroy something completely, often using a nuclear bomb
To destroy a place with very powerful weapons like bombs
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Etymology
Zap comes from the quick electric sound 'zap', like a sudden spark or comic-book ray that hits and stops something. So to zap something is to strike or destroy it quickly, often with electricity or a sudden attack.