Usually means: Back of the neck area.
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We found 39 dictionaries that define the word nape:

General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. nape: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. nape: Merriam-Webster
  3. nape: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. nape: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. nape: Collins English Dictionary
  6. nape: Vocabulary.com
  7. Nape, nape: Wordnik
  8. nape: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. Nape, Nape, Nape, Nape, Nape: InfoVisual Visual Dictionary
  10. NAPE, nape: Wiktionary
  11. nape: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  12. nape: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  13. nape: Infoplease Dictionary
  14. NAPE: Dictionary.com
  15. nape: Online Etymology Dictionary
  16. nape: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  17. Nape (disambiguation), Nape: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  18. Nape: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  19. nape: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  20. nape: Rhymezone
  21. nape: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  22. nape: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  23. NAPE: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  24. nape: FreeDictionary.org
  25. nape: Mnemonic Dictionary
  26. nape: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. nape: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. nape: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. nape: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. NAPE: Acronym Finder
  2. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  3. nape: Idioms

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bird On! (No longer online)
  2. NAPE: A Dictionary of Quaternary Acronyms and Abbreviations

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. nape: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (anatomy) The back part of the neck.
noun:  (zoology) The part of a fish or bird immediately behind the head.
noun:  (obsolete) A tablecloth.
noun:  (military, slang) Napalm.
verb:  (transitive, military, slang) To bombard with napalm.
noun:  (organic chemistry) Abbreviation of N-acyl-phosphatidylethanolamine.

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