LekhoriLekhoriTo be off one's guard.
The regulators were caught napping by the financial collapse.
To form or raise a soft or fuzzy surface on (fabric or leather).
To grab; to nab.
To cover (something) with a sauce. (usually in the passive
Vanilla ice cream topped with a poached or canned pear half, napped with chocolate sauce, and garnished with toasted sliced almonds.
From Middle English nappen, from Old English hnappian (“to doze, slumber, sleep”), from Proto-West Germanic *hnappōn (“to nap”). Cognate with Old High German hnaffezan, hnaffezzan (whence Middle High ...
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A soft or fuzzy surface, generally on fabric or leather.
I tell thee, Jack Cade the clothier means to dress the commonwealth, and turn it, and set a new nap upon it.
The common direction, on some kinds of fabric, of the hairs making up the pile.
If the fabric has a nap, make sure all pieces are cut with the nap going the same direction.
A type of bet in British horse racing, based on the experts' best tips.
4. Races run on English, Welsh or Scottish racecourses. This criterion was included so that media tipsters ^([sic]) nap selections in general could be analysed; the source of naps, The Racing Rag 'tipster table', summarises the nap selections of newspaper tipsters, who restrict their selection to horses running at racecourses in these countries.
A card game in which players take tricks; properly Napoleon.
A cup, bowl.