pap

Related topics: Newspapers, printing, publishing, Media, Food

pap1 /pæp/ noun [uncountableU]

1 TCNAMfilms, programmes, books etc that are badly made or badly written, are intended for entertainment only, and have no serious value 〔无甚价值的〕消遣性电影[电视节目，书籍等]

Hollywood produces a lot of pap.

好莱坞制作出大量低俗电影。

2. DFMD especially British EnglishBrE very soft food that does not have a strong taste, like the food that babies eat 软食，半流质食物〔类似婴儿食品〕

→ Pap smear

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pap• Biased rubbish, distortions, Tory propaganda, consumer pap, trivia, silly stories - they hadn't changed.• Telly snobs will, of course, dismiss the show as lightweight, contrived pap.• This was not the rich pap of the commercial world and there was little money in it for the artists.• Most of the novel is boring, super-sentimental pap.• Many silver pap boats were converted into cream boats by adding a handle and feet.• They are making big names for themselves with pap.

pap2 verb (papped, papping) [transitiveT] informal

if a famous person is papped, one of the paparazzi takes a photograph of them without asking them, for a newspaper or magazine 〔狗仔队〕偷拍〔名人〕

The singer was papped coming out of a nightclub.

这名歌手被狗仔队偷拍到从夜总会出来。

n Grammar

Pap is usually passive.

Origin pap

(1300-1400) Old French papa, from Latin pappa

pap1 nounpap2 verb →n GRAMMAR1

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