giving dap
dapping

Giving dap typically involves handshaking (often, by hooking thumbs), pound hugging, fist pounding, or chest- or fist bumping.

Giving dap can refer to presenting many kinds of positive nonverbal communication between two people, ranging from a brief moment of simple bodily contact to a complicated routine of hand slaps, shakes, snaps, etc. known only by the two participants.

With dapping, the angler is at the mercy of the wind.

There was laughter just out of vision and the dapping of hands.

He said he had seen dapping once on a fishing trip to Ireland.

He has fittingly received awards for dapping excellence in teaching.

In modern practice the term "dapping" is not commonly used except in specific senses.

In natural history dapping is the motion that many aquatic flying insects engage in when laying their eggs.

"There is no fly caster in the world who can imitate a fly the way dapping can.

The server, after dapping the ball (three daps only are allowed), must strike it so that it rebounds off the middle wall and falls outside the black line.

Mr. Shaw said that dapping was only one of a variety of English fishing methods that remain unknown on this side of the Atlantic.

Dapping, whilst a popular method of fishing in the West of Ireland, is practised to a lesser degree on Lough Erne.

Almost sheepishly, he explained that dapping requires a pause before the angler pulls to set the hook, so the fish has time to suck the dancing fly into its mouth.

When a side has scored twenty points, then the server in all following serves must cry 'game' on dapping the ball and must cry 'ball' on striking it.

William O. Dapping covered the 1929-30 riots at Auburn Prison for the newspaper; this coverage earned a Pulitzer Prize for the paper.

Each member of the serving side must at the dapping of the ball stand with at least one foot within the marked line which joins the outer end of one sidewall to the outer end of the other sidewall.

Dapping is an ancient form of fly-fishing, with a pedigree dating back at least to the 1400's, said Mr. Shaw, a British wildlife artist, falconry expert and avid angler who divides his time between the English countryside and the Hudson Valley.