Usually means: Break suddenly with a sharp sound.
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General (19 matching dictionaries)
  1. knap: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. knap, knap: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. knap: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. knap: Collins English Dictionary
  5. knap: Vocabulary.com
  6. Knap, knap: Wordnik
  7. knap: Wiktionary
  8. knap: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. knap: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. Knap, knap: Dictionary.com
  11. Knap: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Knap: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. knap: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. knap: Rhymezone
  15. Knap, knap: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. knap: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  17. knap: Free Dictionary
  18. knap: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. knap: Dictionary/thesaurus

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  1. knap: Encyclopedia

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  1. KNAP: Acronym Finder
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  1. knap: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Knap: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (knap)

verb:  (transitive)
verb:  To break (something) into small pieces with a cracking sound; to fragment, to smash; also, to break (something) apart sharply; to snap.
verb:  (specifically, especially archaeology) To break away flakes from (a brittle material which fractures conchoidally (“with planar concentric curves”), usually a mineral such as chert, flint, or obsidian), often to form a tool with a sharp edge or point.
verb:  To strike (something) sharply; to knock, to rap.
verb:  Followed by off: to break (something) away from another thing by striking or tapping sharply.
verb:  (figurative) To say (something) crisply or sharply.
verb:  (intransitive)
verb:  To break or fracture suddenly; to snap.
verb:  To make a cracking or snapping sound; to crack, to snap.
verb:  To strike sharply.
verb:  (figurative)
verb:  To speak crisply or sharply.
verb:  (gambling, chiefly dice games, obsolete) To cheat while gambling, especially at a dice game.
noun:  (chiefly archaic or obsolete except UK, dialectal)
noun:  A sudden, sharp blow, knock, or slap; a rap, a whack.
noun:  The sound made by such a blow, knock, or slap.
noun:  (agriculture) Synonym of chattering damsel (“a component of a traditional mill which creates a vibratory motion to impel portions of grain toward the millstone; a clapper”)
noun:  (figurative, gambling, chiefly dice games, obsolete) A method of cheating at a dice game.
noun:  A piece of raised ground or a short, steep slope; a small hill; a hillock, a knoll.
noun:  The crest or top of a hill.
verb:  (transitive) To take a small, quick bite at or of (someone or something); to nibble, to nip, to snap.
verb:  (intransitive) To take a small, quick bite.
verb:  Obsolete spelling of nap (“to arrest (someone); to grab or nab (someone or something); to steal (something); (obsolete) to receive (severe punishment), especially during a boxing match or a flogging; (generally) to receive (something)”). [To have a nap; to sleep for a short period of time, especially during the day.]

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