1799 tr. Laboratory (ed. 6) II. x. 272 The few which you may..take, by dipping or dapping, will scarcely be eatable.

1867 F. Francis Bk. Angling vii. 230 Daping is in some places called ‘shade-fishing’.

1908 Westm. Gaz. 13 June 11/3 Heavy trout being captured with the natural insect on ‘dapping’ tackle.

1933 ‘R. Crompton’ William—the Rebel viii. 163 His father..needed all his rods—either for ‘dapping’ or ‘trolling’ or ‘casting’.

1967 Daily Mail 8 July 6/6 Levin, though he lacks the light touch needed for dapping, does..cast as to the manner born.

1920 Glasgow Herald 17 July 4 A position from which he can lower his ‘dap’ on to the water without drawing the fishes' attention.

1960 Times 3 Dec. 9/4 It also rises freely in the daytime to a dapped grasshopper.

1920 Glasgow Herald 17 July 4 The floating imitation of the dry-fly fisher or the dapper's living lure.

1928 Daily Express 28 July 4/6 The patient ‘dapper’, who thrusts his rod between the branches of over-hanging foliage and dangles a blue-bottle temptingly at the extremity of a 3x cast.

1967 Daily Mail 8 July 6/6 I am a beautiful dapper: My daddy-longlegs skimmed the surface of the lake like a corps de ballet.

1971 Albuquerque (New Mexico) Jrnl. 25 Apr. d7/2 He said Army commanders have imposed limitations on dapping, such as in mess halls... ‘They were holding up the chow lines.’

1981 T. Kochman Black & White Styles in Conflict ix. 132 Black greetings are also stylized to convey forceful expression or exhibition, whether the greeting is an embrace, ‘giving skin’, the black-power handshake, or the more extended and elaborate hand, elbow, and hip movements called dapping.

2013 @MiddleFingerYuu 18 Aug. in twitter.com (accessed 23 June 2021) Soo much dapping up & hugs gunna be given Monday morning.

2020 ‘Rvckk’ Way I Move (transcribed from song) I don't like shaking hands, don't really do the dapping.