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lap English

Meaning lap meaning

What does lap mean?
Definitions in simple English

lap Noun

— The thighs. Usually used when one is sitting down. The baby was tired, so he rested down on his mother's lap.

lap Verb

— An animal laps when it uses its tongue to drink milk or water.

lap

— noun the upper side of the thighs of a seated person he picked up the little girl and plopped her down in his lap — verb lie partly over or alongside of something or of one another — verb (= lick) pass the tongue over the dog licked her hand — verb (= lap up, lick) take up with the tongue The cat lapped up the milk the cub licked the milk from its mother's breast — verb (= 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 — noun a flap that lies over another part the lap of the shingles should be at least ten inches — noun the part of a piece of clothing that covers the thighs his lap was covered with food stains — noun movement once around a course he drove an extra lap just for insurance — noun an area of control or responsibility the job fell right in my lap — verb (= lave, wash) wash or flow against the waves laved the shore — noun touching with the tongue the dog's laps were warm and wet

Synonyms lap synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as lap?

lap English » English

lick overlap bosom thigh splash lap up flap plash knee circuit skirt lap covering hem fold circle beat wash twine turn taste swosh swoosh swish swash spiral sip round roll revolution ply plait loop lick up lick in lave knees hemline entwine drink crotch convulate coil wrinkle waist vicinity valve vagina upper leg trituration tripsis

LAP English » English

link access protocol Link Access Procedure

Topics lap topics

What do people use lap to talk about?
Person Body Limb

Leg

  • What words refer to a part of a leg when it is in a particular position?
    lap
Universe, creation Water Movement of water

Wave
Language and thought Emotion Feel good Like, love

Enjoy doing something

Conjugation lap conjugation

How do you conjugate lap?

lap · verb

Examples lap examples

How do I use lap in a sentence?

Simple sentences

Ben acted out the scene of the waitress spilling soup in his lap.
The child slept on its mother's lap.
She was brought up in the lap of luxury.
Lay the napkin across your lap.
The runner sprinted on the last lap.
Tom sat on his father's lap.
The poor boy sat there with his sister on his lap, and sung to her all the songs he knew, and now and then he looked into his geography lesson that lay open before him.
Half the pool was cordoned off for use by lap swimmers.
The old poet sat down again beside the stove, and took the little boy in his lap; he wrung the water out of his streaming hair, warmed the child's hands within his own, and gave him mulled wine to drink.
The boy soon became himself again, the rosy colour returned to his cheeks, he jumped down from the old man's lap, and danced around him on the floor.
Tom lives in the lap of luxury.
I've always wondered what it would be like to live in the lap of luxury.
Mary rested her head on Tom's lap.
I do a lap around the lake every morning.
The coxswain egged his crewmen on, and made a winning spurt at the last lap of the regatta.
Can I sit on your lap?
Tom was sitting on his mother's lap.
Tom did a victory lap.

Movie subtitles

To live, laugh and indulge themselves in the lap of luxury.
Why can't I put my head in your lap and cry?
Put it on your lap.
On my lap.
He's got the layout I've been looking for, for two years. and the sap lays it right in my lap.
The biggest scoop of the year just dropped in my lap.
We're on the last lap.
After a while, for no reason, I'd go over, kiss him, sit in his lap.
Yeah, you don't see no blond squaw sitting on my lap, neither.
We had to do the last lap in a farm cart. - Oh!
I'll take that. I wouldn't want to have this coffee spilt in my lap.
Well, when you have hot coffee spilt in your lap, you sorta. get up quick and turn your back and. never know what's gonna happen, do ya?
They lap it up faster than we can deliver.
Nobody's gonna drop it in your lap.
Not on her lap.
You have a story in your lap and you let the Tribune scoop us, making a first-class, grade-A monkey out of me.
I've worked 25 years to build it up and now you ask me to dump it into somebody's lap.
I could sit on your lap all day if you didn't stand up.
Oh yes, I was on your lap.
Waiting for you to lap up all the liquor in town.
Would you mind getting off my wife's lap?
Sit on my lap when they throw the switch.
We had to do the last lap in a farm cart.
I could take that Joe of yours and spank him right over my lap.
And now, let's lap up the vittles.
I wouldn't want to have this coffee spilt in my lap.
Wake up in the morning and find a boat in your lap.
Well, we're on the last lap.
Yes, but she's sitting on his lap, and he hasn't even touched his trout yet.
No trouble at all. I'll carry it on my lap. Here we go!
Sitting in the lap of luxury, the world at his feet.
With your head in a native girl's lap?
Harry says that Providence dropped the man right into his lap.
You see, we didn't have any money, so we went third class, and there was a farmer on the opposite bench with cheese in his lap.
Probably be laid in your lap anyway.
Then I'm gonna lay it in LeBrand's lap and let him figure it out.

News and current affairs

In fact, he's holding his daughter on his lap as he tries to target your own kids.
In fact, descriptions of some third-arrow projects seem to be based on little more than wishful thinking, with new technology or knowhow apparently expected simply to fall into Japan's lap.
And, for some European governments, it is a typical hands-off remedy that places the problem squarely in America's lap.
NEW YORK - Al Jazeera correspondent Ayman Mohyeldin is on a victory lap in the United States - or rather, Al Jazeera is sending him on its own victory lap.
The next wave of NATO expansion promises to lap onto Russia's border and indeed surpass the old Soviet borders by taking in the Baltic states.
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