papEnglishOxford English Thesauruspap noun 1 a plateful of tasteless pap: soft food, mush, semi-liquid 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.pap (1) Oxford Dictionary of English