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語源 1

Onomatopoeic, from the sound made when a person runs while wearing daps.

名詞

dap (plural daps)

1. (West Country, Somerset, Bristol, Wales, usually in the plural) A plimsoll.
   • 1988, Alan Hollinghurst, The Swimming-Pool Library, paperback edition, London: Penguin Books, →ISBN, page 169:

     I somehow expected them to shout obscenities, and was glad I had come ordinarily dressed, in a sports shirt, an old linen jacket, jeans and daps.

2. (carpentry) A notch cut in one timber to receive another.
3. (slang) Vulva or vagina.

動詞

dap (third-person singular simple present daps, present participle dapping, simple past and past participle dapped)

1. (Bristol) To run or go somewhere quickly.

   I'll just dap down to the shop.

2. (metalworking) To create a hollow indentation.
3. (fishing) To drop the bait gently onto the surface of the water.

語源 2

US 1971, originally by black soldiers during the Vietnam war, associated with Black Power movement. Originally an elaborate handshake, later specifically a fistbump.

Verb originally give dap. Presumably onomatopoeic, or influenced by tap, dab, etc. Alternatively, from earlier slang usage as abbreviation of dapper. Also explained as an acronym, such as “Dignity for Afro People” or “Dignity And Pride”; this may be a backronym or unrelated, but accords with phrasal use as “give DAP” (compare “give respect”). More speculative etymologies derive it from Vietnamese đẹp (“beautiful”), though this is unlikely.

名詞

dap (plural daps)

1. (originally) Elaborate handshake, especially hooking thumbs.
   • 1971, London Magazine, volume 11, page 33:

     ... where many officers look the other way when blacks ‘give dap’ (the power shake) ...

   • 1972, Sepia, volume 21, page 80:

     These bloods just give dap just so they won't be called Uncle Toms.

2. A fist bump.

   Synonym: dab

動詞

dap (third-person singular simple present daps, present participle dapping, simple past and past participle dapped)

1. To greet with a dap.

派生語

• dap up

Further reading

• giving dap on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• The Routledge Dictionary of Modern American Slang and Unconventional English (2009), p. 271

参照

アナグラム

• APD, PDA, PAD, pad, DPA, ADP