The loose part of a coat; the lower part of a garment that plays loosely; a skirt; an apron.
Used in a Sentence
laps
Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for laps.
Editorial note
Maybe as a PM or whatever that suits you, to dump all the risk in the laps of your developers.
Examples15
Definitions4
Parts of speech1
Quick take
The loose part of a coat; the lower part of a garment that plays loosely; a skirt; an apron.
Meaning at a glance
The clearest senses and uses of laps gathered in one view.
An edge; a border; a hem, as of cloth.
The part of the clothing that lies on the knees or thighs when one sits down; that part of the person thus covered.
Definitions
Core meanings and parts of speech for laps.
noun
The loose part of a coat; the lower part of a garment that plays loosely; a skirt; an apron.
noun
An edge; a border; a hem, as of cloth.
noun
The part of the clothing that lies on the knees or thighs when one sits down; that part of the person thus covered.
noun
The upper legs of a seated person.
Example sentences
Maybe as a PM or whatever that suits you, to dump all the risk in the laps of your developers.
Then when nothing happened we had to wait for the last 5 laps to see if anything would change.
I know it's mostly just undisclosed vulnerabilities, but these are complicated machines we have in our laps.
You are shutting down the feedback channel that has fallen into your laps - think what will happen after this process is complete.
It almost seems to me like this one fell into their laps.
I could sit back and believe that wisdom just emerges when you've dumped enough money in the laps of A.
Somewhere in there I remembered swimming and got a tape and learned to swim laps.
Yes, person A may eat all the burgers and twinkies, because he's going to the gym all the time and swimming laps like there's no tomorrow.
With the encouragement of my teachers and some students, I managed to do a few laps by the end of the class.
I want to see that attack last twice as long -- 4 laps!
I could have walked to other states, doing laps at 1AM while figuring out computer science homeworks in the back of my head.
I swam two out of two and a half laps, but I didn't pace myself well enough, and I ended up having to stop.
Quote examples
The "Investments" section is still as unusable as it was back then (personalcapital.com is running laps around it).
Then I remembered Apple decided to rename their laptops to "notebooks" after people started burning their laps.
"Far from changing his policy conclusions in light of his model’s botched predictions, Krugman kept running victory laps, claiming his model had been 'right about everything.' He further speculated that the only explanation for his opponents’ unwillingness to concede defeat was that they were evil or stupid."
Frequently asked questions
Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.
How do you use laps in a sentence?
Maybe as a PM or whatever that suits you, to dump all the risk in the laps of your developers.
What does laps mean?
The loose part of a coat; the lower part of a garment that plays loosely; a skirt; an apron.
What part of speech is laps?
laps is commonly used as noun.