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sap
noun- a gullible fool UK, 1815
- What saps we were! — Max Shulman, The Zebra Derby, p. 83, 1946
- “Tomorrow we can go out and get a new radio–if, Wally darling, you’ll be a doll and put it in for me?” “You know I will, baby,” said Wally. The guy is such a sap. — C.D. Payne, Youth in Revolt, p. 121, 1993
- [P]oor saps who are obsessively smitten by clapped-out Jaguars[.] — Jenny Eclair, Camberwell Beauty, p. 347, 2000
- in borstal, a weak trainee who is “not very bright” UK
From the previous sense. - — the Home Office, Glossary of Terms and Slang Common in Penal Establishments, July 1978
- a short club; a police officer’s nightstick US, 1899
- The Independent has special cops hired by the company, but they don’t carry guns. Only saps. — William Burroughs, Junkie, p. 45, 1953
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