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pap

noun

1 a plateful of tasteless pap:

soft food, mush, semiliquid food, baby food, slop, slush, swill, pulp, puree, mash, paste;

informal goo, gloop, gook;

North American, informal glop.

2 an aspiring writer sees his profound drama turned into commercial pap by Hollywood:

trivia, pulp, pulp fiction, trash, nonsense, froth;

British rubbish, candyfloss;

informal dreck, drivel, twaddle;

British, informal rot;

rare pabulum, pablum.