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ZAP

3 letters

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TWL06 ✓ SOWPODS ✓ ENABLE1 ✓
Classic 1 pts
Big too short
(min 4)
Super Big too short
(min 4)

ZAP is a valid 3-letter Boggle word. It's listed in all three major word lists — TWL06, SOWPODS, and ENABLE1. It scores 1 in Classic Boggle, though it's too short for Big and Super Big (which need four-letter words).

Word family

ZAPS-s 1 ZAPPING-ping 5 ZAPPED-ped 3
noun
  1. colloquialA sound made by a sudden release of electricity or some similar energy.
  2. colloquialAn electric shock.
    • You might feel a little zap touching a metal doorknob when the air is dry.
  3. A raucous public demonstration designed to embarrass a public figure or celebrity as a form of political activism.
  4. slangThe act of heating something in a microwave oven.
verb
  1. intransitiveTo make a zap sound.
  2. To use a remote control to repeatedly fast-forward or change channels on a television.
  3. To strike (something or someone) with electricity or energy, as by shooting.
    • They spent the whole movie zapping bad guys into oblivion.
  4. USslangtransitiveTo kill; to eliminate.
  5. slangtransitiveTo do away with something.
  6. slangtransitiveTo enliven.
  7. slangtransitiveTo move or transport (something) in a brief time frame.
  8. slangtransitiveTo damage (especially electronics) with electrostatic discharge.
    • I think they zapped the processor.
  9. slangtransitiveTo heat (something) in a microwave oven.
    • If it's not warm in the middle, zap it some more.
  10. slangtransitiveTo delete or discard (electronic media).
    • They zapped a lot of files before realizing they had not backed up lately.
  11. slangtransitiveTo further energize or charge (magnetic material).
    • They zapped my motor's magnets.
  12. SingaporeinformaltransitiveTo photocopy.
  13. To participate in a zap (protest) against.
interjection
  1. Representing the sound or action of a zap.
    • Then the computer went zap and I lost all my work.