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pap

[pap] / pæp /
NOUN
food
Synonyms
STRONG
aliment bite board bread cheer chow comestible cookery cooking cuisine diet drink eatable eats edible fare feed fodder foodstuff goodies grits groceries grub handout keep larder meal meat menu nourishment nurture nutriment nutrition pabulum provender provision ration refreshment slop snack store subsistence support sustenance table tuck viand victual
WEAK
entrée esculent fast food home cooking moveable feast vittles
Antonyms
STRONG
deprivation starvation

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Marfisee’s own survey of the mission’s female residents found that nearly 90% were not up to date on recommended cancer screenings like mammograms and pap smears, which detect early cervical cancer.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 3, 2026

Some of them have been feeding on spoon-fed pap by the rich and powerful for so long that — as A.J.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 8, 2025

What’s exciting about Methica CC is that labs could run it on self-collected HPV samples after they test positive, with no pap smear required.

From Salon • Jun. 9, 2025

We produce pap with snap for various news-information silos.

From Salon • Mar. 28, 2025

She fried the locusts to a deep brown colour, salted them heavily and then served them with the pap.

From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane

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