noun
General Slang
daps
· noun · welsh
Welsh and West Country word for plimsolls or trainers.
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Plimsolls, gym shoes, the canvas pumps you wore for PE. By extension, trainers in general for many South Wales speakers. Rest of the UK calls them pumps, plimsolls, sandshoes or gutties depending where you're from — in Wales and Bristol, they're daps.
“Don't forget your daps, we've got games first lesson.”
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daps In A Sentence
Don't forget your daps, we've got games first lesson.
Origin & Usage
Used across South Wales and the West Country of England (Bristol, Somerset) for plimsolls — the canvas school PE shoes. Origin is disputed; possibly from the verb 'dap' meaning to bounce lightly. Generations of Welsh and West Country schoolkids only ever called them daps, never plimsolls or pumps.
Variants
dap
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