I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a victory lap (= when a winning runner or player runs around the playing area )
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He then took a victory lap around the arena.
lap dancing
lap dog
the lap of luxury (= a very comfortable situation, especially compared to other situations or other people )
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After camping for a week, my own bed felt like the lap of luxury.
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The foreigners lived in the lap of luxury.
waves lap (= hit something gently )
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the sound of waves lapping against the boat
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
fastest
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Schumacher, setting the fastest lap of the race in the process, finally got past Blundell just before half-distance.
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Thirteen pole positions, 14 fastest laps .
final
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No one could have asked for a better final lap over the 1. 527-mile oval at Homestead, Fla.
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Earnhardt, 49, died of head trauma during the final lap of last Sunday's Daytona 500.
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Entering the final lap , Boulmerka was bumped and stepped on by two runners, then bumped again from behind by another.
■ NOUN
victory
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He then took a victory lap around the floor of the arena and wound up having his picture taken with Ali.
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A warm-up lap , unlike a victory lap, could be done by telephone.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
fall into sb's lap
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Every morning she swims fifty laps in the pool.
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Shannon sat on her mother's lap and smiled for the camera.
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With one lap to go in the race, Petty's car blew a tire.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Dorothea sat at his feet, her head in his lap .
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From a three-hour flight, at the outside, when he'd only flown from London to Helsinki on the last lap ?
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I pulled the covers up over my lap .
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Robyn sat on the floor by the fire, with her plate on her lap , and tucked in.
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She put her fists into her lap and crouched in her chair, the way people die in sparsely furnished rooms.
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She turned and leaned back into my lap , her shirt falling open.
II. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
up
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But as she lapped up the five-star treatment on the champagne Concorde flight, angry pensioners were facing a bleak future.
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Perhaps he can borrow a reptile to perch next to him and lap up his tears as they fall.
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An eager public lapped up the vital evidence.
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Not surprisingly, it is a comparison that the Bush people lap up with delight.
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She was taken in by Maggie Taylor and now five month old Teka is fighting fit and lapping up all the attention.
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I was on my crutches, doing my eight laps up and down the path where the pines wall the garden in.
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I'd had a couple of drinks, lapped up some fast food, and jumped into a cab.
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Ice cream is one food that most kids lap up without hesitation.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Patrese lapped the 2.7-mile circuit at 128 mph.
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Senna lapped everyone in the San Marino Grand Prix.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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I lapped at the warm, rich blood; very nice, very fresh.
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Ice cream is one food that most kids lap up without hesitation.
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Not surprisingly, it is a comparison that the Bush people lap up with delight.
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Perhaps he can borrow a reptile to perch next to him and lap up his tears as they fall.
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The floodwaters were lapping at the sides.
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The gun lapped up snow and vegetation with a blow-torch thirty feet long.
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This morning the water was clear and silvery, chuckling a little as it lapped over the smooth, oval, brown stones.