An interjection expressive of a sudden blow, like whack! slap! bang! &c.
But a day of payment is coming; and if the money ain't forthcoming, out comes a Randolph writ, and whap goes your money and liberty.--Crockett's Speech, Tour, p. 109.
I began to think smokin' warn't so bad alter all, when whap went my cigar right out of my mouth into my bosom.--Sam Slick in England, ch. 2.
A quick and smart stroke.--Jamieson. He hit him on the wame ane wap, It buft lyke ony bledder.--Ch...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.