zap

v. kill, shoot; destroy; defeat; attack suddenly (Slang); complete something very quickly, move very fast; cook or warm up something in a microwave oven; photocopy something; (Computers) damage or destroy hardware or media by means of electricity; erase or get rid of something (Computers); change stations during television advertisements with a remote control; (Broadcasting) use an apparatus to erase commercials from a transmission (i.e.: with a pause button in videotaping); give an electric shock (Slang)

n. short length of time in a microwave oven; energy and enthusiasm; unexpected forceful strike or hit; jolt; spicy quality

Zap can refer to:An onomatopoeia, referring to electricityZap Comix, a series of underground comicsZap Skimboards, a popular skimboard manufacturer.Zap, North DakotaZap! (computer game)Zap! (band)Zap (song) is the name of the instrumental song by Eric JohnsonRaye Hollitt, a cast member on American Gladiators"Zapped", an episode of Power Rangers: SPDZap (game)ZZZap!, a children's television programmeZap is also a character from the G.I. Joe universe.Zap! (webcomic), a sci-fi webcomic on KeenspotZaporozhets, a long-lived series of small, rear-engined Soviet Ukrainian cars
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Verb
1. strike suddenly and with force; "This show zaps the viewers with some shocking scenes"
(hypernym) affect, impress, move, strike
2. kill with or as if with a burst of gunfire or electric current or as if by shooting; "in this computer game, space travellers are vaporized by aliens"
(synonym) vaporize
(hypernym) kill
(derivation) zapper
3. strike at with firepower or bombs; "zap the enemy"
(synonym) nuke, atomize, atomise
(hypernym) bombard, bomb
4. cook or heat in a microwave oven; "You can microwave the left-overs"
(synonym) microwave, micro-cook, nuke
(hypernym) cook
(classification) cooking, cookery, preparation

1. <language> A language for expressing program transformations.
["A System for Assisting Program Transformation", M.S. Feather, ACM TOPLAS 4(1):1-20, Jan 1982].
2. Zero and Add Packed.
(2001-03-25)

<jargon> 1. To modify, usually to correct; especially used when the action is performed with a debugger or binary patching tool. Also implies surgical precision. "Zap the debug level to 6 and run it again."
In the IBM mainframe world, binary patches are applied to programs or to the operating system with a program called "superzap", whose file name is "IMASPZAP" (possibly contrived from I M A SuPerZAP).
See also Zero and Add Packed.
2. To fry a chip with static electricity. "Uh oh - I think that lightning strike may have zapped the disk controller."
(1998-07-08)

heat in the microwave oven, nuke I zapped my hotdog. It was ready in 30 seconds!