1. Worthless or oversimplified ideas
   "The article was nothing but pap, offering no real insights";
   - pablum [rare]
    
2. A diet that does not require chewing; advised for those with intestinal disorders
   "The patient was restricted to pap during recovery";
   - soft diet, spoon food
    
3. [dialect] The small projection of a mammary gland
   "The pap becomes more pronounced during pregnancy";
   - nipple, mammilla, mamilla, teat
    
4. [informal] A freelance photographer who pursues celebrities trying to take candid photographs of them to sell to newspapers or magazines
   "The movie star was surrounded by paps as she left the restaurant";
   - paparazzo

1. (usually used in passive) of a paparazzo, take a photograph
   "I'd just had lunch and was holding my stomach, and I was papped and accused of being pregnant"

Derived forms: paps, papping, papped

Type of: applesauce [N. Amer, informal], bilge [informal], bull [slang], buncombe [informal], bunk [informal], bunkum [informal], bushwa [N. Amer, informal], bushwah [N. Amer, informal], codswallop [Brit, informal], diet, drivel, falderal, flapdoodle [N. Amer, informal], folderol, garbage, guff [informal], hogwash [informal], Irish bull [slang], jive [N. Amer, informal], junk [informal], nonsense, photog [N. Amer, informal], photographer, reproductive organ, rhubarb [Brit, informal], rot [informal], rubbish [informal], sex organ, snapper [Brit, informal], trash [informal], tripe [informal], trumpery [archaic], wish-wash [informal]

Part of: mamma, mammary gland

Encyclopedia: Pap, Uzbekistan