dap
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They dap each other up as they criss-cross through the crowd and sing along to the music.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 16, 2025
Back at his familiar post, he had a chance to dap up old classmates from Lewiston High—Fazla had served as class president—as they came by for late-night snacks.
From Slate ● Dec. 4, 2024
I shout, walking from behind the wooden counter reserved for the facility’s law clerks to the front area designated for the general population so I can dap him up.
From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2024
The best example of this is the famous "Key & Peele" skit of President Obama reserving dap for skin folk and kinfolk alike while extending the standard handshake for white folks.
From Salon ● Feb. 19, 2024
But their rituals were so similar, the way they walked and gave dap, it was all familiar to me.
From "Between the World and Me" by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Was this the guy who just the other day had dapped me in the hallway?
From Slate ● Oct. 6, 2025
Ford ran around the ring and dapped his homies in the crowd.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 27, 2023
It was the first time Wentz and McLaurin had run the fade in camp, McLaurin said, and they dapped excitedly multiple times walking back to the sideline.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 7, 2022
“He just dapped me up,” Murray said grinning.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 15, 2019
He even felt real—he held out his fist as I walked closer, gripping the very real green seat backs, and after a few seconds I dapped him up, staring at him when our knuckles connected.
From "Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky" by Kwame Mbalia
The linkages between modern dapping and African handshakes aren’t a coincidence.
From Salon ● Feb. 19, 2024
“Junior,” LeBron James said from his stall, and soon the boy was dapping up James and Anthony Davis.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 19, 2023
“It’s always great when he comes around because everybody loves my lil’ man being in the locker room, coming up and shaking everybody’s hand, dapping everybody up,” Galloway said.
From Washington Post ● May 17, 2021
A photo of crips throwing up their gang sign sits above a photo and explanation of dapping and another of Michelle and Barack Obama fist-bumping.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 24, 2019
They all swung their hands toward me, dapping me as Coach continued, "You proved that you can get it if you want it. Now get back on the line."
From "Ghost" by Jason Reynolds
