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jap /dʒap /
verb
( japs, japping, japped)
[no object] Scottish English / Northern Irish English (of a liquid) spatter or splash over a surface:
the boiling water is japping from the spout.
– ORIGIN early 18th century: originally Scots, of imitative origin.
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