• PAP
adj. of persons or objects: weak, feeble …1910s S. Afr. sl.
n. 1. a teat or nipple of a woman’s breast …c1200
n. 2. soft or semi-liquid food for invalids or infants, made of bread, meal, etc., moistened with water or milk …c1430
n. 3. a small round tumour or swelling; a pimple …1552
n. 4. the pulp of an apple, esp. when roasted …1594 obs.
n. 5. a teat of an animal …1634 chiefly N. Eng. dial.
n. 6. a mother’s milk …1828 Sc. & Eng. dial.
n. 7. a father …1844 Amer. dial.
n. 8. paper money …M19 sl.
n. 9. an affection name used by a woman to her husband, lover, or pimp …L19 US sl.
n. 10. the projection of the mouth …1892 Sc.
n. 11. a newspaper …1900s US sl.
n. 12. nonsense; worthless talk …20C US colloq.
n. 13. one of the segments of an orange …1910 Sc.
n. 14. a lecher; a whoremonger …M20 US sl.
n. 15. a grandfather; an old man …1955 Amer. dial.
vb. 1. to make a popping sound, to pop …1837
vb. 2. to work as a press photographer who specializes in the sensational and the celebrated …2004 UK sl.
• PAPA
n. 1. the pope of Rome …1559 obs.
n. 2. a parish priest, or any member of the lower orders of the clergy in the Orthodox Eastern Church …1591
n. 3. a father …1681
n. 4. an affection name used by a woman to her husband, lover, or pimp …L19 US sl.
n. 5. a husband …1904 US sl.
n. 6. oneself …1920s US sl.
n. 7. a Lincoln automobile …1930s US criminals’ sl.
n. 8. a masculine lesbian …1940s US sl.
n. 9. an older homosexual man …1950s US sl.
n. 10. a male animal, esp. one used for breeding purposes; a bull …1950 Amer. euphemism
n. 11. a grandfather …1965 Amer. dial.
• PAPABLE
adj. capable of being elected pope; qualified for the office of pope …1592 rare
• PAPA COW
n. a bull …c1960 Amer. euphemism
• PAPAGAN
adj. Roman Catholic …1647 obs.
n. a Papist …1641 obs.
• PAPAGEE
n. a member of the Roman Catholic Church, a papist …1767 Sc.
• PAPA HOG
n. a boar …1965 Amer. euphemism
• PAPAL
n. a Papist …1611 obs.
• PAPALIN
n. a member of the papal party or papal church; an adherent of the pope, a papist …1624 obs.
• PAPALINA
n. a female papist …1671 obs. rare
• PAPALITY
n. the papal office, dignity, or authority; the popedom …1456 obs.
• PAPALTY
n. the papal office, dignity, or authority; the popedom …1577 obs.
• PAPANE
adj. papal, pert. to the pope …1581 obs. rare
n. a Papist …1581 obs. rare
• PA-PAP
n. a grandfather …1967 Amer. dial.
• PAPAPHOBIA
n. dread of the pope or of popery …1798 rare
• PAPAPHOBIST
n. one who fears the pope or popery …1818
• PAPA PIG
n. a boar …c1960 Amer. euphemism
• PAPARAZZI
n. press photographers who specialize in the sensational and the celebrated, or a single photographer similarly engaged …1968 UK sl.
• PAPARCHICAL
adj. pert. to papal rule …1895
• PAPARCHY
n. papal rule or sovereignty; government by the pope …1839 rare
• PAPASHIP
n. the position of being a ‘papa’; fatherhood …1816
• PAPATE
n. the office of pope, the papacy …1390 obs. rare
• PAPA-TREE-TOP-TALL
n. an extremely tall man …1930s African-American sl.
• PA-PAW
n. a grandfather; rarely, a father or stepfather …1942 Amer. dial.
• PAPAYA
n. the vagina …20C sl.
• PAP-BAIRN
n. a child at the breast; a suckling …1768 Sc.
• PAP-BONE
n. each of the pair of ribs beneath the paps ..1581 obs.
• PAPBROEK
n. a coward, a weakling …1930s S. Afr. sl.
• PAPE
n. 1. the stone of a cherry, plum, or other stone fruit; an orange pip, etc. …1721 Sc.
n. 2. (a Roman Catholic …1935 Sc. & Ulster sl., derogatory
• PAPEJAY
n. a parrot …1861 Sc. obs.
• PAPELARD
adj. 1500 – hypocritical or sycophantic → obs.
n. 1340 – a flattering parasite; a hypocrite; a sycophant → obs.
• PAPELARDRY
n. c1400 – sycophancy, hypocrisy for greed or gain (obs.)
• PAPELARDY
n. c1400 – sycophancy, hypocrisy for greed or gain (obs.)
• PAPELOTE
n. 1393 – porridge (obs.)
• PAPER
n. 1. 1386 – written documents collectively; paper bearing writing (obs.)
n. 2. 1785 – free passes of admission to a theatre or other entertainment; persons admitted by free passes (UK sl.)
n. 3. L18 – any form of money order, IOU, promissory note or financial document other than actual cash (sl.)
n. 4. L18 – money, usually notes (sl., orig. African-American)
n. 5. M19 – playing cards (US sl.)
n. 6. M19 – counterfeit banknotes (UK criminals’ sl.)
n. 7. M19 – an admission ticket, such as to a dance; also, a forged ticket (US sl.)
n. 8. L19 – posters or similar publicity material (US sl.)
n. 9. 1894 – marked cards for sharpers (US sl.)
n. 10. 20C – a forged or useless cheque or other financial instrument (US sl.)
n. 11. Bk1905 – a notice to quit (Eng. dial.)
n. 12. 1920s – a sheet of paper impregnated with a drug in solution or any other form of smuggling drugs into prison (US drug culture sl.)
n. 13. 1930s – a railroad ticket (US tramps’ sl.)
n. 14. 1930s – cigarette papers, esp. when used for rolling marijuana cigarettes (drug culture sl.)
n. 15. 1950 – a cigarette paper (UK sl.)
n. 16. 1953 – heroin sold in a paper packet; a folded paper containing any powdered drug (US sl.)
n. 17. 1940s – any form of legal or similarly authoritative documentation, such as a marriage certificate, prison documentation (sl.)
n. 18. 1960s – a drug prescription (sl.)
n. 19. 1972 – a cheque (US sl.)
n. 20. 1973 – probation in lieu of a jail sentence; parole from prison (US sl.)
n. 21. 1976 – a speeding ticket (US sl.)
n. 22. 1982 – personal identification papers (US sl.)
n. 23. 1983 – an underworld contract to have someone killed (US sl.)
n. 24. 1988 – promotional literature produced as part of a telephone sales swindle (US sl.)
n. 25. 1990s – crack cocaine (sl.)
n. 26. 2000s – a small amount of methamphetamine (sl.)
n. 27. 2000s – proof that a prisoner is an informer (US prison sl.)
vb. 1. 1594 – to write about, to describe in writing (rare)
vb. 2. 1879 – to boost an audience by giving out free passes to a show or entertainment (sl.)
vb. 3. 1925 – to defraud someone by passing a forged cheque (sl.)
vb. 4. 1992 – to nag someone (UK rhyming sl. – paper bag)
• PAPER ACID
n. LSD esp. when dropped onto a square of blotting-paper, or when combined with another drug …1960s drug culture sl.
• PAPER AND PLASTIC
n. in gambling: a combination of cash and betting chips …1996 US sl.
• PAPERASSERIE
n. 1856 – excessive bureaucratic procedure or paperwork; bureaucracy; red tape
• PAPER BAG
vb. to nag someone …1992 UK rhyming sl.
• PAPERBAG CASE
n. an ugly woman …1976 US sl.
• PAPERBAG JOB
n. someone physically unattractive, esp. facially, so that if one were to have sex with them, one would need a paperbag to hide the head …20C Aust. sl.
• PAPER BLUNT
n. a marijuana cigarette …2003 UK sl.
• PAPER-BLURRER
n. a term of contempt for an inferior writer …1581
• PAPER BOY
n. 1. a heroin peddler …1960s drugs sl.
n. 2. a boy who has had sex with a lot of people in his area …1990s sl.
• PAPER CHASER
n. one who is looking for money, usually a drug dealer …2000s African-American sl.
• PAPER-CIGAR
n. a cigarette …1833 obs.
• PAPER-COLLARED SWELL
n. a clerk, a ‘white-collar worker’ …M19 NZ sl.
• PAPER COLLAR SOLDIER
n. a soldier from the northeast (to westerners) …US Civil War usage
• PAPER CRIER
n. a street seller of newspapers; a news vendor …1711 Sc.
• PAPER DOLL
n. a promiscuous, sexually available woman …1970s rhyming sl. for ‘moll’
• PAPER-DRAGON
n. a paper kite …1851 Eng. dial.
• PAPERED
adj. used of a stadium or an auditorium filled by people given free tickets …1978 US sl.
• PAPEREN
adj. made of paper …1870 Eng. dial.
• PAPERER
n. one who issues or receives free passes to a theatre or other entertainment …L19 sl.
• PAPER-FACED
adj. having a thin or pale face …1597
• PAPER-FAKE
vb. to sell ballads on the street …M19 sl.
• PAPER-FIDDLER
n. one who is energetic or lively in his movements; a light-headed, thoughtless fellow …1881 Eng. dial.
• PAPER FIEND
n. one who sucks the amphetamine-impregnated strips from an amphetamine inhaler …1940s drug culture sl.
• PAPER GROWER
n. a recycling bin for paper …1989 Can. sl.
• PAPER-HANG
n. the passing of counterfeit money or forged securities …1976 US sl.
• PAPER-HANGER
n. 1. someone who passes forged or fraudulent cheques …1914 sl., orig. US
n. 2. a criminal whose expertise is the use of fraudulent securities …1954 US sl.
n. 3. in trucking: a police officer writing a ticket …1976 US sl.
• PAPERHANGER’S PASTE
n. thick gravy …1966 Amer. dial.
• PAPER-HANGING
n. passing bad cheques …E19 US criminals’ sl.
• PAPER HAT
n. a fool …1960s rhyming sl. for ‘prat’
• PAPERIE
n. a small paper; a short paper …1886 Sc.
• PAPER-LAYER
n. one who habitually passes bad cheques …E19 US criminals’ sl.
• PAPER LEG
n. a favoured student …Bk1942 Amer. college sl.
• PAPER MAKER
n. 1. a beggar who poses as an agent of a paper-mill and is thus given cast-off rags, which are then sold for profit …M19 sl.
n. 2. a gatherer of rags and other saleable rubbish from the streets and gutters …M19 sl.
• PAPER MAN
n. a convict holding a ticket of leave …M19 Aust. sl.
• PAPER MARRIAGE
n. a society wedding …L19 sl.
• PAPER MILL
n. a small, unstable bank …M19 US sl.
• PAPER MINISTER
n. a minister who reads their sermons rather than learning them by heart …1854 Sc. colloq.
• PAPER-MOTH
n. one who is constantly occupied with paper, one devoted to reading …1698 obs.
• PAPER MUSHROOMS
n. LSD, esp. that which has been dropped onto blotting-paper …1980s drug culture sl.
• PAPERN
adj. of paper …1616 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
• PAPER NEWS
n. a newspaper …1821 Sc.
• PAPER-PUNCHER
n. a handgun target shooter …1957 US sl.
• PAPER PUSHER
n. 1. a bureaucrat or clerk of the lowliest rank, the implication being that they never write on, but only push around, paper …20C sl.
n. 2. in the military: anyone with a desk job and not in combat …1980 US sl.
n. 3. a person who places counterfeit money into circulation …1985 US sl.
• PAPER-PUSHING
n. working in an office or as a clerk …1970s sl.
• PAPERS
n. 1. any form of money order, IOU, promissory note or financial document other than actual cash …L18 sl.
n. 2. in prison: a person’s background …2000 US sl.
• PAPER SCULL
n. a fool …L17 sl.
• PAPER-SCULLED
adj. foolish, simple …L17 sl.
• PAPER-SHADE IRISH
n. lower class Irish …1967 Amer. dial.
• PAPER SKULL
n. a fool …L17 sl.
• PAPER-SKULLED
adj. foolish, simple …L17 sl.
• PAPER SOLDIER
n. a rear-area military personnel who supported those in combat …1990 US sl.
• PAPER-STAINER
n. 1. one who stains or colours paper; used humorously for an inferior author or clerk; an author of small repute …1596 humorous
n. 2. a maker of paper-hangings …1756
• PAPER-STEALTH
n. literary piracy, plagiarism …1647 obs.
• PAPER-TABLE
n. a sheet or leaf of paper …1591 obs.
• PAPER THE HOUSE
vb. to give away free tickets to an event in order to secure a large audience …1859 UK sl.
• PAPER TIME
n. the additional years added to a prison sentence because of publicity surrounding the crime, criminal, and/or trial …1962 US sl.
• PAPER TOP
n. a convertible car top …1973 US sl.
• PAPERWEIGHT
n. 1. a railroad yard clerk …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
n. 2. in horse racing: a very small weight allowance in a weight-handicapped event …1989 Aust. sl.
• PAPERWORK
n. 1. any alteration of playing cards as part of a cheating scheme …1962 US sl.
n. 2. a speeding ticket …1976 US sl.
n. 3. money; currency notes …1997 UK sl.
• PAPER WORKER
n. a street seller of broadsides …M19 sl.
• PAPER-WORM
n. one devoted to reading, a bookworm …1691 obs.
• PAPER YABBER
n. a letter …L19 Aust. sl.
• PAPES
n. 1. a foolish youth …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
n. 2. bread and milk; a sort of gruel made by boiling flour and water together …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
n. 3. money …1990s sl., orig. African-American
n. 4. cigarette rolling papers …1997 US sl.
• PAPESS
n. a female pope …1620
• PAPETERIE
n. a case or box, usually ornamental, for paper and other writing materials; a stationery-case …1847
• PAP FEEDER
n. a spoon …M19 sl.
• PAP-HAWK
n. a child at the breast; a suckling …c1450 obs. rare
• PAP-HEAD
n. the nipple …1530 obs.
• PAPHIAN
adj. 1. pert. to objects, persons, or acts which are lewd and illicit …M17
adj. 2. pert. to love; esp. pert. to or devoted to unlawful sexual indulgence; belonging to the class of prostitutes; unchaste …1656
n. a prostitute …1811
• PAPHIAN GAME
n. prostitution …L16 sl.
• PAPHOOD
n. infancy …1837 nonce word
• PAPI
n. a Black person or a Puerto Rican …2000s African-American sl.
• PAPICOLAR
adj. Roman Catholic …c1810
• PAPICOLIST
n. a worshipper of the pope, a papist …1633 obs. rare
• PAPILIOUS
adj. allied to the butterfly …1733 obs. rare
• PAPINGAY
n. a parrot …1861 Sc. obs.
• PAPINGO
n. 1. a member of the Roman Catholic Church, a papist …1767 Sc.
n. 2. a parrot …1861 Sc. obs.
• PAPION
n. the cheetah …a1375 obs.
• PAPISH
n. a Papist; a Roman Catholic …1806 Sc. & Eng. dial.
• PAPISHER
n. an adherent of the pope; an advocate of papal supremacy; also, a member of the Roman Catholic Church; a Roman Catholic …1823 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
• PAPISM
n. the papal system; popery; Roman Catholicism …1550
• PAPIST
n. an adherent of the pope; an advocate of papal supremacy; also, a member of the Roman Catholic Church; a Roman Catholic …1534 usually hostile or opprobrious
• PAPIST-CROSS
n. a cross; a ludicrous term that was used by young people …Bk1905 Sc.
• PAPISTIC
adj. adhering to the pope; Roman Catholic …1545 usually hostile or opprobrious
n. an adherent of the pope; an advocate of papal supremacy; also, a member of the Roman Catholic Church; a Roman Catholic …1589
• PAPISTICAL
adj. adhering to the pope; Roman Catholic …1537 usually hostile or opprobrious
n. a Roman Catholic …1823 Sc. obs.
• PAPISTICALLY
adv. in a papistical manner; popishly …1572
• PAPISTICATE
vb. to render papistic …1746 nonce word obs.
• PAPISTRY
n. 1. the Roman Catholic religion or faith; popery …a1500
n. 2. popery, Romanism …1631 Sc. & Eng. dial.
• PAPIST-STROKE
n. a jocular name for a crucifix …1825 Sc.
• PAPIYOT
n. a weakling; a frail person; a useless opponent in a game …20C W. Indies sl.
• PAPIZE
vb. to act or play the pope; to act on the side of the pope or papal system …1612 obs.
• PAPLAR
n. porridge …M16 UK criminals’ sl.
• PAP-MILK
n. breast-milk …1899 Sc.
• PAP-MOUTH
n. a soft, effeminate man; a childish boy or girl …1895 Eng. dial.
• PAPOLATROUS
adj. worshipping the pope; having an excessive reverence for the pope …1894
• PAPOLATRY
n. worship of, or excessive reverence for, the pope …1894 nonce word
• PAPPANT
adj. 1. rendered pettish by indulgence …Bk1905 Sc.
adj. 2. rich, rising in the world …Bk1905 Sc.
• PAP-PAP
n. a grandfather …1967 Amer. dial.
• PAPPE
vb. to feed, to cram, to pamper …a1400 obs. rare
• PAPPIE
vb. to father a child …1940 Amer. dial.
• PAPPOOSE
adv. piggyback …1912 Amer. dial.
• PAPPY
adj. 1. of persons: conceited, stiff with self-esteem, stuck-up, officious, pompous, puffed up with pride; presumptuous …1881 Sc.
adj. 2. feeble or weak in character or will …1893
adj. 3. soft, soaked with milk …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
adj. 4. old, esp. exhibiting the signs of the old …1930s US sl.
n. 1. father …1763 sl.
n. 2. infant’s food, pap …1807
n. 3. the female breast; the nipple; a mother’ s milk …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
n. 4. a male lover …1920s African-American sl.
n. 5. an old man …1940s sl.
n. 6. a grandfather; occasionally, a great-uncle …1953 Amer. dial.
vb. 1. to father a child …1940 Amer. dial.
vb. 2. to transmit the father’s likeness to offspring …1953 Amer. dial.
• PAPPY GUY
n. an old man …1900s US tramps’ sl.
• PAPPY-MAMMY
n. a homosexual man …1956 Trinidad and Tobago
• PAPPY SACK
n. a term of endearment for a male child …1949 Amer. dial.
• PAPPY-SHOW
adj. foolish, ridiculous …L19 W. Indies
n. (usually as ‘pappy show’) foolishness, showing off …L19 W. Indies
n. 2. a fool, or someone who presents the appearance of a fool; one who makes a stupid exhibition of themselves …1940 Trinidad and Tobago
vb. to make a fool of someone …L19 W. Indies
• PAPS
n. 1. the breasts; the nipples …14C
n. 2. two or more conical hill summits, rising side by side …1632
n. 3. a father …1970s UK Black sl.
n. 4. paparazzi …1990s sl.
• PAP-SHELL
n. the limpet …1842
• PAP WITH A HATCHET
vb. to act or seem as though one is doing something with good or kind intentions, when, really, the opposite is true; to do a kind thing in an unkind manner …1589 obs.
• PAPYRAL
adj. made or consisting of paper …1848 nonce word
• PAPYRIAN
adj. pert. to or composed of papyrus …1754
• PAPYRIFEROUS
adj. producing or yielding papyrus; producing or yielding paper, or a substance resembling or serving as paper …1656
• PAPYRINE
adj. made of papyrus; resembling paper …1816
• PAPYROCRACY
n. government by paper, i.e. by newspapers or literature …1843
• PAPYROPHOBIA
n. dread of paper …1790
• PAPYROPOLIST
n. a seller of paper …1656 obs.
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