1. lapping - Noun
2. lapping - Verb
Derived from lap
of Lap
A kind of machine blanket or wrapping material used by calico printers.
Source: Webster's dictionaryBeware of privilege. It stinks of rotten rotten fish heads, many of which were lapping the shore beneath the jetties. Ralph Steadman
I will arise and go now, for always night and day I hear lake water lapping with low sounds by the shore While I stand on the roadway, or on the pavements grey, I hear it in the deep heart's core. William Butler Yeats
Listen up-there's no war that will end all wars,' Crow tells me. ‘War breeds war. Lapping up the blood shed by violence, feeding on wounded flesh. War is a perfect, self-contained being. You need to know that. Haruki Murakami
For me, becoming a celebrity was like being in the eye of a hurricane. Suddenly, I was an international cover girl. Everybody was lapping up my Hemingwayness. They wanted to rub elbows with me or brush up against me. Margaux Hemingway
From his hole so wet and drenching a pike rose up to tree to sing when through the greyish net of clouds first gleam of day was seen and at the lake the lapping waves woke up with joyous mean the pike rose to the spruce's crone to take a bite at reddish cone. Aaro Hellaakoski
People sometimes forget all the films that we've done. They remember the likes of 'Malcolm X' and 'Do the Right Thing.' But I've been working since 1986. From the beginning, I was determined to not just be a flash in the pan. I've got to keep up with Woody Allen. He's lapping me. Spike Lee