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Japped. Anyone know exactly what this word means? I haven't heard it anywhere else besides this movie. Is it just a substitute for "jabbed" or does it mean stomped, wrecked, wasted?

Fox: "A train would help, unless you want to get japped on an open platform."

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Vermin: "We're gonna get japped here, we're gonna get japped!"

I'm guessing it's just another word for wrecked/wasted

Probably Jumped, or wasted.

Actually come to think of it I think it means something more along the lines of jumped like Ramsey mentioned. Getting wrecked and wasted can happen in various ways but I think getting japped is more like getting jumped/ambushed or something like that

it means getting wasted

i always thought it ment getting stabbed. like somethin u would see in an old batman episode. like big letters JAPP, BOOM, POW!!!

actually a slang term for : surprize attack, to be attacked without warning

As in, it became a street term with relevance to Pearl Harbor---
dawn attack by Japanese fighter Pilots (Japped) and took the island/US unaware.

Ranchgal wrote:actually a slang term for : surprize attack, to be attacked without warning

As in, it became a street term with relevance to Pearl Harbor---
dawn attack by Japanese fighter Pilots (Japped) and took the island/US unaware.

I thought this was pretty painfully obvious...

Ranchgal is correct. This term was used in the 70's quite a lot.

Okay, I thought that term had kind of fallen into obscurity by the late seventies. Maybe that's a holdover from the novel.

Ranchgal wrote:actually a slang term for : surprize attack, to be attacked without warning

As in, it became a street term with relevance to Pearl Harbor---
dawn attack by Japanese fighter Pilots (Japped) and took the island/US unaware.

i always assumed this and yet again you guys confirmed it for me well done ranchgal

Ramsey wrote:Probably Jumped, or wasted.

People i already answered the question.

surprize attack, to be attacked without warning

Getting Jumped is essentially the same thing.