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zap
verb- to kill someone US, 1942
A major piece of slang from the Vietnam war. - “I hate like hell to see the ground troops got zapped[.]” — Elaine Shepard, The Doom Pussy, p. 9, 1967
- “We can be sure of three kills in the firefight, and counting the two we zapped on the path later, that would be five thousand piastres.” — Donald Duncan, The New Legions, p. 76, 1967
- — Carl Fleischhauer, A Glossary of Army Slang, p. 27, 1968
- All overhung with the corrosive uncertainty about when the next firefight would happen and who would get zapped in it, the men and men-children of Bravo moved into a time when they could taste relief. — Charles Anderson, The Grunts, p. 154, 1976
- You’re zapped, you cannon-cockin’ Texas shitkicker, zapped by the world’s greatest jungle fighter. — Philip Caputo, A Rumor of War, p. 245, 1977
- When I start shooting, go for the nearest guard, get his gun and zap him! — The Deer Hunter, 1978
- So what am I going to do? Get one of my guys zapped so some fuckface fresh from the world can get his beauty fucking sleep! — Platoon, 1986
- One of our guys zapped the cop-killing cocksucker. — James Ellroy, Suicide Hill, p. 836, 1986
- He gets popped like twenty-thirty times and all hands is getting zapped. — Kevin Sampson, Clubland, p. 2, 2002
- to shoot someone UK
A Royal Navy variation on the previous sense. - — Nigel Foster, The Making of a Royal Marine Commando, 1989
- to finish something off UK
A figurative variation of the sense “to kill”. - I zapped your yaoh [cocaine] last night. — Kevin Sampson, Powder, p. 370, 1999
- to defeat someone heavily US, 1968
Paul Janssen, 1968. - to give someone an electrical shock; to administer electric shock treatment to someone US
Recorded as “administering shock treatment” in “The language of nursing”, Philip C. Kolin, American Speech, p. 209, Fall–Winter 1973. - They never know what hit them. And if and when they do find out they just got zapped by a cattle prod, they wish they really did have a heart attack. — Casino, 1995
- to operate electronically, often by remote-control
- He’s zapped his bus door shut[.] — Kevin Sampson, Outlaws, p. 91, 2001
- to overwhelm someone US
- Joe David Brown (Editor), The Hippies, p. 220, 1967: “Glossary of hippie terms”
- to move quickly US
- — Robert Kirk Mueller, Buzzwords, p. 167, 1974
- As soon as the first bullet comes your way, your head is zapped into what I can only describe as another dimension. — Ken Lukowiak, Marijuana Time, p. 20, 2000
- to have sex US
- — American Speech, p. 20, Spring 1985: “The language of singles bars”
- to present, to give US
“Zap the world with love”. - — Ruth Bronsteen, The Hippy’s Handbook, p. 17, 1967
- to steal something UK
- When we was first starting out we used to zap the lead from off’ve the church roofs. — Kevin Sampson, Clubland, p. 112, 2002
- to use the (remote) fast-forward facility on video playback to pass advertising; to use a remote control to switch between television channels (to avoid advertising, or simply to find a programme that engages you) US, 1983
- to send a text message UK
- Hayley quickly decided to go, and zapped the text through to another group of friends. — The Times Magazine, 21 June 2003
- to heat something up in a microwave oven US, 1999
- Place this dish in the oven, select and given temperature and zap away. — Victor Papanek, How Things Don’t Work, p. 94, 1977
- We need to zap this, quick! — South Park, 1999
- to give a student in college a notification of academic deficiency US
- — American Speech, pp. 76–77, February 1968: “Some notes on flunk notes”
- in Canadian military aviation, to affix a sticker on which is the badge of a military unit onto an aircraft of another service CANADA, 1982
- To some, zapping is a challenging sport that expresses unit pride. However, in more straight-laced organizations, finding a zap on an airplane is about as popular as finding a fly in one’s soup. — Tom Langeste, Words on the Wing, p. 316, 1995
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