pap
[noun]
Synonyms: food, aliment, nourishment, nutriment, pabulum, sustenance, pablum, rubbish, slop
[noun]
Synonyms: father, dad, daddy, old man, pa, papa, pappy, pater, pop, poppa

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Related Words: garbage, trash

[TahlilGaran] English Synonym Dictionary ▲

I. pap¹ /pæp/ noun [uncountable]
[Date: 1300-1400; Language: Old French; Origin: papa, from Latin pappa]

1. films, programmes, books etc that are badly made or badly written, are intended for entertainment only, and have no serious value:
Hollywood produces a lot of pap.

2. especially British English very soft food that does not have a strong taste, like the food that babies eat
⇒ Pap smear

[TahlilGaran] Dictionary of Contemporary English ▲

II. pap² verb (past tense and past participle papped, present participle papping) [transitive usually in passive] informal
if a famous person is papped, one of the paparazzi takes a photograph of them without asking them, for a newspaper or magazine:
The singer was papped coming out of a nightclub.

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