I. pap 1 /pæp/ BrE AmE noun [uncountable]
[ Date: 1300-1400 ; Language: Old French ; Origin: papa , from Latin pappa ]
1 . films, programmes, books etc that are badly made or badly written, are intended for entertainment only, and have no serious value:
Hollywood produces a lot of pap.
2 . especially British English very soft food that does not have a strong taste, like the food that babies eat
⇨ ↑ Pap smear
II. pap 2 BrE AmE verb ( past tense and past participle papped , present participle papping ) [transitive usually in passive] informal
if a famous person is papped, one of the ↑ paparazzi takes a photograph of them without asking them, for a newspaper or magazine:
The singer was papped coming out of a nightclub.