papnoun [ U ]
uk/pæp/us/pæp/informal disapprovingpap noun [ U ] (FOOD)
food that is soft and has little taste
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Food - general words
- aliment
- bed
- carb
- carbohydrate
- chanterelle
- chow
- diabetic
- fibre
- foodstuff
- fruits of the earth idiom
- greengrocer
- grocer
- grocery
- ration
- refreshment
- roughage
- serving
- shelf life
- speciality
- tuck
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pap noun [ U ] (ENTERTAINMENT)
television, cinema, or books that are entertaining, but that have no artistic or educational value
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Types of film, play, book etc.
- adaptation
- anime
- blockbuster
- epic
- epigram
- epistle
- film noir
- hagiography
- hokum
- indie
- lampoon
- mystery
- pastiche
- pastoral
- prose
- saga
- satire
- slow
- the big screen 1
- vignette
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pap noun [ U ] (PHOTOGRAPHER)
mainly UK a member of the paparazzi photographers who follow famous people in order to take photographs of them for newspapers and magazines
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Photography
- airbrush
- aperture
- camera
- camera obscura
- camera-shy
- capture
- high-resolution
- hologram
- holography
- kinetoscope
- lo-res
- negative
- say cheese idiom
- selfie
- sharp
- shoot
- shutter
- slide
- SLR camera
- snapshot
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papverb [ T ]
uk/pæp/us/pæp/-pp- informalmainly UK to take photographs of a famous person, usually after following them and without permission, for newspapers or magazines:
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Photography
- airbrush
- aperture
- camera
- camera obscura
- camera-shy
- capture
- high-resolution
- hologram
- holography
- kinetoscope
- lo-res
- negative
- say cheese idiom
- selfie
- sharp
- shoot
- shutter
- slide
- SLR camera
- snapshot
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