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Frape vs Drape - What's the difference?

frape | drape |

As nouns the difference between frape and drape

is that frape is (obsolete) a crowd, a rabble or frape can be (internet slang) an act of using another person's facebook account to post derogatory messages while drape is a drop (globule of liquid ).

As a verb frape

is (internet slang) to hijack, and meddle with, someone's facebook account while it is unattended.

frape

English

Etymology 1

Compare frap.

Noun

(en noun)
  • (obsolete) A crowd, a rabble.

    • References

    (Webster 1913)

    Etymology 2

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (internet slang) An act of using another person's Facebook account to post derogatory messages.

    • Verb

    (frap)
  • (internet slang) To hijack, and meddle with, someone's Facebook account while it is unattended.
    • Derived terms
    * frapist ----

    drape

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (UK) A curtain, a drapery.
  • The way in which fabric falls or hangs.
  • (US) See drapes.
  • (US) A youth subculture distinguished by its sharp dress, especially peg-leg pants (1950s: e.g. Baltimore, MD). Antonym: square

    • References

    * Time.com: MANNERS & MORALS: The Drapes [http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,856482,00.html]

    Verb

    (drap)
  • To cover or adorn with drapery or folds of cloth, or as with drapery; as, to drape a bust, a building, etc.
  • * De Quincey
    • The whole people were draped professionally.
  • * Bungay
    • These starry blossoms, pure and white, / Soft falling, falling, through the night, / Have draped the woods and mere.
  • To .
  • To make cloth.
  • To design drapery, arrange its folds, etc., as for hangings, costumes, statues, etc.
  • To hang or rest ly
  • To spread over, cover.

    • Anagrams

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