Definition of lap

"lap" in the noun sense

1. lap

the upper side of the thighs of a seated person

"he picked up the little girl and plopped her down in his lap"

2. lap

an area of control or responsibility

"the job fell right in my lap"

3. lap, lap covering

the part of a piece of clothing that covers the thighs

"his lap was covered with food stains"

4. lap, overlap

a flap that lies over another part

"the lap of the shingles should be at least ten inches"

5. lap, circle, circuit

movement once around a course

"he drove an extra lap just for insurance"

6. lick, lap

touching with the tongue

"the dog's laps were warm and wet"

"lap" in the verb sense

1. lap

lie partly over or alongside of something or of one another

2. lick, lap

pass the tongue over

"the dog licked her hand"

3. lap, swish, swosh, swoosh

move with or cause to move with a whistling or hissing sound

"The bubbles swoshed around in the glass"

"The curtain swooshed open"

4. lap, lap up, lick

take up with the tongue

"The cat lapped up the milk"

"the cub licked the milk from its mother's breast"

5. lave, lap, wash

wash or flow against

"the waves laved the shore"

Source: WordNet® (An amazing lexical database of English)

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Quotations for lap

An ass was never cut out for a lap-dog. [ Proverb ]

Gashed with honourable scars,
Low in Glory's lap they lie;
Though they fell, they fell like stars,
Streaming splendour through the sky. [ Montgomery ]

No vernal blooms their tropid rocks array
But winter lingering chills the lap of May. [ Goldsmith ]

Old cats may lap as well as young children. [ Proverb ]

No vernal blooms their torpid rocks array,
But winter lingering chills the lap of May;
No zephyr fondly sues the mountain's breast.
But meteors glare, and stormy glooms invest. [ Goldsmith ]

Now the bright Morning-star, Day's harbinger,
Comes dancing from the east, and leads with her
The flow'ry May, who from her green lap throws
The yellow Cowslip, and the pale Primrose. [ Milton ]

So may'st thou live, till like ripe fruit thou drop
Into thy mother's lap. [ Milton ]

The seasons alter; hoary-headed frosts fall in the fresh lap of the crimson rose. [ William Shakespeare ]

Such a man, truly wise, creams off nature, leaving the sour and the dregs for philosophy and reason to lap up. [ Swift ]

And in his lap a masse of coyne he told And turned upside down, to feede his eye And covetous desire with his huge treasury. [ Spenser ]

Your fame is as the grass, whose hue comes and goes, and His might withers it by whose power it sprang from the lap of the earth. [ Dante ]

If you're a Thanksgiving dinner, but you don't like the stuffing or the cranberry sauce or anything else, just pretend like you're eating it, but instead, put it all in your lap and form it into a big mushy ball. Then, later, when you're out back having cigars with the boys, let out a big fake cough and throw the ball to the ground. Then say, Boy, these are good cigars! [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]

Mother! How many delightful associations cluster around that word! The innocent smiles of infancy, the gambols of boyhood, and the happiest hours of riper years! When my heart aches and my limbs are weary travelling the thorny path of life, I sit down on some mossy stone, and closing my eyes on real scenes, send my spirit back to the days of early life; I feel afresh my infant joys and sorrows, till my spirit recovers its tone, and is willing to pursue its journey. But in all these reminiscences my mother rises; if I seat myself upon my cushion, it is at her side; if I sing, it is to her ear; if I walk the walls or the meadows, my little hand is in my mother's, and my little feet keep company with hers; when my heart bounds with its best joy, it is because at the performance of some task, or the recitation of some verses, I receive a present from her hand. There is no velvet so soft as a mother's lap, no rose so lovely as her smile, no path so flowery as that imprinted with her footsteps. [ Bishop Thomson ]

lap in Scrabble®

The word lap is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 5

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays In The Letters lap:

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lap in Words With Friends™

The word lap is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 7

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays In The Letters lap:

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The 48 Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays Using The Letters In lap

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Words containing the sequence lap

Words with lap in them (159 words)

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Word Growth involving lap

Shorter words in lap

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Longer words containing lap

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balaphon balaphons

burlap

clap clapboard clapboarded

clap clapboard clapboarder clapboarders

clap clapboard clapboarding

clap clapboard clapboards

clap clapbread clapbreads

clap clapometer clapometers

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clap clapper clapperboard clapperboards

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clap claps thunderclaps

clap claptrap

clap handclap handclaps

clap thunderclap thunderclaps

dewlap dewlapped

dewlap dewlaps

dilapidate dilapidated nondilapidated

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dilapidating

dilapidation dilapidations

dilapidator dilapidators

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flap flaptrack flaptracks

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flap unflappability

flap unflappable

flap unflappably

hydroxylapatite hydroxylapatites

jalapeno jalapenos

jalapic

lamellaphone lamellaphones

laparoendoscopic

laparorrhagia

laparorrhaphies

laparorrhaphy

laparoscope laparoscopes

laparoscopic laparoscopically

laparoscopic nonlaparoscopic

laparoscopies

laparoscopist laparoscopists

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laparothoracoscopy

laparotomies

laparotomy

lapboard clapboard clapboarded

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lapboard clapboard clapboarding

lapboard clapboard clapboards

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lapidarist lapidarists

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lapland

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lapped dewlapped

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lapped slapped backslapped

lapped underlapped

lapping clapping

lapping flapping backflapping

lapping overlapping nonoverlapping

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lapping slapping backslapping backslappings

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laps claps thunderclaps

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laps collapsable noncollapsable

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laps collapsibilities

laps collapsibility

laps collapsible noncollapsible

laps dewlaps

laps flaps backflaps

laps flaps cowflaps

laps flaps earflaps

laps flaps eyeflaps

laps flaps mudflaps

laps lapse collapse collapsed recollapsed

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laps shiplaps

laps slaps backslaps

laps slaps slapshots

laps slaps slapstick slapsticks

laps underlaps

laptop laptops

laptop nonlaptop

lapwing lapwings

malappropriate malappropriated

malappropriate malappropriates

malappropriating

malappropriation malappropriations

malaprop malapropian

malaprop malapropish

malaprop malapropism malapropisms

malaprop malapropist malapropists

malaprop malapropoism malapropoisms

malaprop malapropos

malaprop malaprops

overlap overlapped nonoverlapped

overlap overlapper overlappers

overlap overlapping nonoverlapping

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selaphobe selaphobes

selaphobia

selaphobic selaphobics

shiplap shiplapped

shiplap shiplapping

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slap backslap backslapped

slap backslap backslapper backslappers

slap backslap backslapping backslappings

slap backslap backslaps

slap slaphappier

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slap slaphappy

slap slapped backslapped

slap slappers backslappers

slap slapping backslapping backslappings

slap slaps backslaps

slap slaps slapshots

slap slaps slapstick slapsticks

tilapia

underlap underlapped

underlap underlapper underlappers

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