Usually means: Soft food for infants, elderly.
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General (29 matching dictionaries)
  1. pap: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. pap: Merriam-Webster
  3. pap, pap, pap: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. pap, pap: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. pap: Collins English Dictionary
  6. pap: Vocabulary.com
  7. Pap, Pap, Pap, pap, pap, pap: Wordnik
  8. pap: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. PAP, pap: Wiktionary
  10. pap: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. pap: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. pap: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Pap: Dictionary.com
  14. pap (1), pap (2): Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. pap: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. PAP, Pap (food), Pap (geometry), Pap: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Pap: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. pap: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. pap: Rhymezone
  20. Pap, pap (de): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. pap: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. PAP: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  23. Pap: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  24. pap: FreeDictionary.org
  25. pap: Mnemonic Dictionary
  26. pap: TheFreeDictionary.com
  27. pap: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. PAP: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)

Computing (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. PAP: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. PAP: CCI Computer
  3. BABEL: Computer Oriented Abbreviations and Acronyms (No longer online)
  4. CNET Internet Glossary (No longer online)
  5. PAP (Password Authentication Protocol): Linktionary Networking Glossary
  6. Webopedia (No longer online)
  7. I T Glossary (No longer online)
  8. PAP (computer), pap: Encyclopedia
  9. Computer Glossart and Terminologies (No longer online)

Medicine (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. pap: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. PAP: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  3. PAP, pap: Sound Alike Words
  4. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  5. Hepatitis C Information Central (No longer online)
  6. PAP: Prostate Cancer Interactive Glossary
  7. PAP: Dictionary of Cancer Terms
  8. Pap: Medical dictionary
  9. PAP: Drug Medical Dictionary
  10. Hyperdictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. PAP: Acronym Finder
  2. PAP: Three Letter Words with definitions
  3. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. PAP(S): Glossary of Biblical English of the Authorised Version of the HOLY BIBLE

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. PAP: Cytokines & Cells Online Pathfinder Encyclopaedia

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. pap, pap, pap, pap, pap, pap, Pap: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. pap: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  3. P.A.P, P.A.P. (Pussy Ass Pussy), Pap, pap: Urban Dictionary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. pap: Webster's New World Telecom Dictionary
  2. PAP: Web Hosting Glossary

(Note: See paping as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (uncountable) Food in the form of a soft paste, often a porridge, especially as given to very young children.
noun:  (uncountable, colloquial) Pablum or nonsense.
noun:  (South Africa) Porridge.
noun:  (Nigeria, West Africa) A fermented cereal pudding made from corn, sorghum, or millet
noun:  (informal, derogatory) Support from official patronage.
noun:  The pulp of fruit.
verb:  (transitive, obsolete) To feed with pap.
noun:  (archaic) A female breast or nipple.
noun:  (now rare, archaic) A man's breast.
noun:  A rounded, nipple-like hill or peak.
adjective:  (South Africa, slang) Weak, feeble; lacking substance.
adjective:  (South Africa, slang) Spineless, wet, without character.
adjective:  (South Africa, slang) Flat.
verb:  (informal, usually passive voice) To take a surreptitious photograph of (someone, especially a celebrity) without their consent.
noun:  (informal) Pa; father.
noun:  (Singapore, Singlish, derogatory) Pay And Pay (nickname for the People's Action Party)
noun:  (organic chemistry) polyfluoroalkyl phosphate ester
noun:  (medicine) Acronym of positive airway pressure. (PAP ventilation)
noun:  (by extension) A positive airway pressure machine, a PAP device.
verb:  (acronym, Internet slang, text messaging) Post a picture.
noun:  Alternative letter-case form of Pap (“Pap smear”).
noun:  (informal) Clipping of paparazzo. [A freelance photographer who sells photographs of celebrities to the media, especially one who pursues celebrities and attempts to obtain candid photographs.]
verb:  (Internet slang, text messaging) Alternative letter-case form of PAP (“post a picture”). [(acronym, Internet slang, text messaging) Post a picture.]
noun:  (Singapore, politics) Initialism of People's Action Party.
noun:  (PRC) Initialism of People's Armed Police.
noun:  (networking) Initialism of password authentication protocol.
noun:  (grammar) Abbreviation of past active participle. [(grammar) A participle that describes an action that has been completed in the past.]
noun:  (grammar) Abbreviation of present active participle. [(grammar) A participle that expresses an action that occurs at the same moment as the action of the main verb, regardless of the of tense the main verb.]
noun:  (philosophy) Initialism of principle of alternate possibilities.
noun:  (medicine) Initialism of prostatic acid phosphatase. [(biochemistry, oncology) An enzyme produced by the prostate, which may be found in increased amounts in men who have prostate cancer or other diseases.]
noun:  (cosmology, epistemology) Initialism of participatory anthropic principle.
noun:  Ellipsis of Pap smear. [(gynaecology) A screening test meant to detect pre-cancerous and cancerous cells by taking a sample (‘smear’) of cells from the cervix.]

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