Crossword-Solution: LAP 3 letters, 887 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 5

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Word	Word Type	Definition
Lap	n.	The loose part of a coat; the lower part of a garment that plays loosely; a skirt; an apron.
Lap	n.	An edge; a border; a hem, as of cloth.
Lap	n.	The part of the clothing that lies on the knees or thighs when one sits down; that part of the person thus covered; figuratively, a place of rearing and fostering; as, to be reared in the lap of luxury.
Lap	n.	That part of any substance or fixture which extends over, or lies upon, or by the side of, a part of another; as, the lap of a board; also, the measure of such extension over or upon another thing.
Lap	n.	The amount by which a slide valve at its half stroke overlaps a port in the seat, being equal to the distance the valve must move from its mid stroke position in order to begin to open the port. Used alone, lap refers to outside lap. See Outside lap (below).
Lap	n.	The state or condition of being in part extended over or by the side of something else; or the extent of the overlapping; as, the second boat got a lap of half its length on the leader.
Lap	n.	One circuit around a race track, esp. when the distance is a small fraction of a mile; as, to run twenty laps; to win by three laps. See Lap, to fold, 2.
Lap	n.	In card playing and other games, the points won in excess of the number necessary to complete a game; -- so called when they are counted in the score of the following game.
Lap	n.	A sheet, layer, or bat, of cotton fiber prepared for the carding machine.
Lap	n.	A piece of brass, lead, or other soft metal, used to hold a cutting or polishing powder in cutting glass, gems, and the like, or in polishing cutlery, etc. It is usually in the form of wheel or disk, which revolves on a vertical axis.
Lap	v. t.	To rest or recline in a lap, or as in a lap.
Lap	v. t.	To cut or polish with a lap, as glass, gems, cutlery, etc. See 1st Lap, 10.
Lap	n.	To fold; to bend and lay over or on something; as, to lap a piece of cloth.
Lap	n.	To wrap or wind around something.
Lap	n.	To infold; to hold as in one's lap; to cherish.
Lap	n.	To lay or place over anything so as to partly or wholly cover it; as, to lap one shingle over another; to lay together one partly over another; as, to lap weather-boards; also, to be partly over, or by the side of (something); as, the hinder boat lapped the foremost one.
Lap	n.	To lay together one over another, as fleeces or slivers for further working.
Lap	v. i.	To be turned or folded; to lie partly upon or by the side of something, or of one another; as, the cloth laps back; the boats lap; the edges lap.
Lap	v. i.	To take up drink or food with the tongue; to drink or feed by licking up something.
Lap	v. i.	To make a sound like that produced by taking up drink with the tongue.
Lap	v. t.	To take into the mouth with the tongue; to lick up with a quick motion of the tongue.
Lap	n.	The act of lapping with, or as with, the tongue; as, to take anything into the mouth with a lap.
Lap	n.	The sound of lapping.

Anagrams

Word		Anagrams
LAP	anagram	ALP, APL, PAL, PLA

We have 887 clues for the answer “LAP”

Clue	Answers
"___ me in soft Lydian airs": Milton	1 answer
-- of luxury	1 answer
1.5 miles on the Chicagoland Speedway, e.g.	1 answer
1/200th of the Indy 500	1 answer
400 meters to an Olympic runner, usually	1 answer
400 meters, on a standard track	1 answer
400 meters, to some runners	1 answer
400-meter circuit	1 answer
400-meter loop, perhaps	1 answer
400m, maybe	1 answer
440 yards, at times	1 answer
440 yards, often	1 answer
440 yards, on a track	1 answer
440 yards, to a track runner	1 answer
440 yards, to a track star	1 answer
50 meters in a pool, maybe	1 answer
Section of a race, or a seat for a child	1 answer
A bell might signal the last one	1 answer
A cozy seat	1 answer
A jogger doesn't have one, but may do one	1 answer
A place of luxury?	1 answer
Accept eagerly, with "up"	1 answer
Across the pool and back	1 answer
Act like a thirsty cat	1 answer
Section of a track event	1 answer
Area of responsibility, so to speak	1 answer
Australian race horse Phar __	1 answer
Baby music composer Raimond ___	1 answer
Baby prop, sometimes	1 answer
Baby seat, say	1 answer
Baby's perch	1 answer
Baby's place, at times	1 answer
Baby's seat	1 answer
Baby's seat, at times	1 answer
Baby's seat, maybe	1 answer
Back and forth at the pool	1 answer
Be folded over.	1 answer
Be folded.	1 answer
Be more than 400 meters ahead of, perhaps	1 answer
Be one circuit ahead.	1 answer
Beat by a lot in a race	1 answer
Belt's location	1 answer
Big lead in a race	1 answer
Body feature that can disappear	1 answer
Body part that appears while sitting	1 answer
Booster seat alternative?	1 answer
Cat seat, maybe	1 answer
Cat's nap spot	1 answer
Cat's nest?	1 answer
Cat's perch, maybe	1 answer

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Hint 1 meaning

The transparent part of the coat of the eyeball which covers the iris and pupil and admits light to the interior. See Eye.

Hint 2 anagram

OECRNA

Hint 3 another clue

COVER THE EYES

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Sentences with LAP (5)

Her hand he seis’d, and to a shadie bank, Thick overhead with verdant roof imbowr’d He led her nothing loath; Flours were the Couch, Pansies, and Violets, and Asphodel, And Hyacinth, Earths freshest softest lap.

Paradise Lost John Milton 1991

Soon afterward he came up to a Shepherd and fawned upon him, wagging his tail as if to say, “I am a suppliant, and seek your aid.” The Shepherd boldly examined the beast, discovered the thorn, and placing his paw upon his lap, pulled it out; thus relieved of his pain, the Lion returned into the forest.

Aesop’s Fables Aesop 2000

Paphian, Epicurean, Sybaritical; bred in the lap of luxury, nursed in the lap of luxury; indulged, pampered; full-fed, high-fed.

Roget’s Thesaurus Peter Mark Roget 1991

JOHNSON _#_Political parties and leaders: National Democratic Party of Liberia (NDPL), Augustus CAINE, chairman; Liberian Action Party (LAP), Emmanuel KOROMAH, chairman; Unity Party (UP), Carlos SMITH, chairman; United People's Party (UPP), Gabriel Baccus MATTHEWS, chairman _#_Suffrage: universal at age 18 _#_Elections: President--last held on 15 October 1985 (next to be held NA); results--Gen.

The 1991 CIA World Factbook United States. Central Intelligence Agency. 1992

More than this—astonishingly more—his head was upon her lap, his face and neck were disagreeably wet, and her fingers were unbuttoning his collar.

Far from the Madding Crowd Thomas Hardy 1992

Quotes with LAP (3)

When God Created Mothers" When the Good Lord was creating mothers, He was into His sixth day of "overtime" when the angel appeared and said. "You're doing a lot of fiddling around on this one." And God said, "Have you read the specs on this order?" She has to be completely washable, but not plastic. Have 180 moveable parts... all replaceable. Run on black coffee and leftovers. Have a lap that disappears when she stands up. A kiss that can cure anything from a broken leg to a …

Erma Bombeck When God Created Mothers

Holding this soft, small living creature in my lap this way, though, and seeing how it slept with complete trust in me, I felt a warm rush in my chest. I put my hand on the cat's chest and felt his heart beating. The pulse was faint and fast, but his heart, like mine, was ticking off the time allotted to his small body with all the restless earnestness of my own.

Haruki Murakami The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

In life, people tend to wait for good things to come to them. And by waiting, they miss out. Usually, what you wish for doesn't fall in your lap; it falls somewhere nearby, and you have to recognize it, stand up, and put in the time and work it takes to get to it. This isn't because the universe is cruel. It's because the universe is smart. It has its own cat-string theory and knows we don't appreciate things that fall into our laps.

Neil Strauss The Game: Penetrating the Secret Society of Pickup Artists

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Appears in: Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, Custom, Daily Beast, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, Rock & Roll, S&S, Slate, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 1,034 times in crossword archives (1942–2025).