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Despite the brilliant special effects during the fight scenes (Whap! Zonk! Boof! flashing across the screen), the show was pretty one-dimensional. Batman was good and noble, Robin was good and dorky. Together, the two foiled the mischievous intentions of a host of stock bad guys: Joker, Penguin, Catwoman, etc. (In a rare appearance, the Mad Hatter was featured in the show...
...home from Montreal after a weekend of bilingual debauchery when the muffler--possibly out of mechanical outrage at my amateur outrage at my amateur treatment of the clutch--slammed onto the pavement, leaving the car sounding somewhat like a Cuisinart trying to eat gravel: "Rrrr--KKKKK--ponkataponkata--WhaP...
Shelley Winters decisioned him twice in 1951 ("slugging" him once and "slamming him over the head" another time) during squabbles over the filming of a forgettable movie called Meet Danny Wilson. "Bowlegged bitch of a Brooklyn blonde," he called her. "Skinny, no-talent stupid Hoboken bastard," she replied. Whap! She may be the only soul, living or dead, who comes out of Kitty Kelley's gritty biography of Frank Sinatra looking wholesome. That includes two U.S. Presidents, John F. Kennedy and Ronald Reagan, who cheapened their office by pal-ling around with Sinatra, the noted entertainer, bully and bar fighter...
...then, George maintains, he died. "I was just nothing. I was dead. And a dirty smell come with it. I was dead, and I said, 'I don't care if I am dead, I still believe in God!' Whap! I was back." He started hollering hallelujahs, and the people in his dressing room "looked at me like I was crazy. Maybe I did look crazy; all I know is since that day I wasn't a believer, I was a knower. Hallelujah, I'm saved! In all my wildest imagination I never thought up nothing like that. I sure didn...
...year award, though it is possibly just as well that Kentucky's bigoted baron is not around anymore to vote on who can play basketball. As Ewing was introduced for his final college game, a banana peel hit the floor of Lexington's Rupp Arena with a sickening whap. It seemed barely to miss slapping him, though he appeared not to notice. The Washington Post stopped recording this ritual when it ceased being news. "Bananas have been thrown at Ewing in at least ten games this year," Reporter Michael Wilbon says. Illiteracy signs were back also: EWING KANT READ...