# If someone replied to a topic with \*FapFapFap\*, would you know what it referenced? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [April 15, 2012, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-someone-replied-to-a-topic-with-fapfapfap-would-you-know-what-it-referenced/618883 "2012-04-15T21:47:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Idle\_Thoughts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/838e76/32.png) [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2012, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-someone-replied-to-a-topic-with-fapfapfap-would-you-know-what-it-referenced/618883/1 "2012-04-15T21:47:02Z")
Yet another “How well known/wide spread is this lingo” thread. Without reading the replies, if you saw someone in a thread going _Fap Fap Fap Fap Fap_, would you understand what it meant? [spoiler]It’s supposed to be the sound of a male masturbating. For girls, I’ve heard it’s supposed to be _Shik Shik Shik Shik_[/spoiler] ---
**Author:** ![MichaelEmouse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/michaelemouse/32/101_2.png) [@MichaelEmouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MichaelEmouse)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2012, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-someone-replied-to-a-topic-with-fapfapfap-would-you-know-what-it-referenced/618883/2 "2012-04-15T22:01:03Z")
Yes, the first time I read it was in SexyLosers about a decade ago. Looking at the comic right now (Mike’s Left Hand, Family Ties), I see the proper female term is “shlick shlick shlick”. ---
**Author:** ![BTEzra04](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9f8e36/32.png) [@BTEzra04](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BTEzra04)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2012, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-someone-replied-to-a-topic-with-fapfapfap-would-you-know-what-it-referenced/618883/3 "2012-04-15T22:18:57Z")
Yes, I would know. I think I first ran across it a year or so ago. ---
**Author:** ![PandaBear77](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/edb3f5/32.png) [@PandaBear77](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PandaBear77)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2012, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-someone-replied-to-a-topic-with-fapfapfap-would-you-know-what-it-referenced/618883/4 "2012-04-15T22:22:12Z")
Yes I’d know. ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2012, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-someone-replied-to-a-topic-with-fapfapfap-would-you-know-what-it-referenced/618883/5 "2012-04-15T22:28:37Z")
Yes, and it always makes me go ‘ick’. ---
**Author:** ![Asimovian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asimovian/32/172_2.png) [@Asimovian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asimovian)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2012, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-someone-replied-to-a-topic-with-fapfapfap-would-you-know-what-it-referenced/618883/6 "2012-04-15T22:36:24Z")
Yeah, I think I first ran across that on Fark many years ago. ---
**Author:** ![MichaelEmouse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/michaelemouse/32/101_2.png) [@MichaelEmouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MichaelEmouse)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2012, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-someone-replied-to-a-topic-with-fapfapfap-would-you-know-what-it-referenced/618883/7 "2012-04-15T22:45:21Z")
> [@IvoryTowerDenizen](#): > > Yes, and it always makes me go ‘ick’. No, that’s “shlick”. ---
**Author:** ![Dervorin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Dervorin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dervorin)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2012, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-someone-replied-to-a-topic-with-fapfapfap-would-you-know-what-it-referenced/618883/8 "2012-04-15T23:06:10Z")
There’s a school in Bangalore, where I’m from, called Frank Anthony Public School. Commonly known as FAPS, of course. I giggled a lot the first time I heard that acronym, but I was the only person who did, I’m ashamed to say. ---
**Author:** ![MichaelEmouse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/michaelemouse/32/101_2.png) [@MichaelEmouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MichaelEmouse)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2012, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-someone-replied-to-a-topic-with-fapfapfap-would-you-know-what-it-referenced/618883/9 "2012-04-15T23:08:32Z")
> [@Dervorin](#): > > There’s a school in Bangalore, where I’m from, called Frank Anthony Public School. Commonly known as FAPS, of course. I giggled a lot the first time I heard that acronym, but I was the only person who did, I’m ashamed to say. Funnier if you think of it as FAP school. ---
**Author:** ![Springtime\_for\_Spacers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Springtime\_for\_Spacers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Springtime_for_Spacers)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2012, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-someone-replied-to-a-topic-with-fapfapfap-would-you-know-what-it-referenced/618883/10 "2012-04-15T23:11:24Z")
It’s even a word in the SOWPODS scrabble dictionary. ---
**Author:** ![Drain\_Bead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e47774/32.png) [@Drain\_Bead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drain_Bead)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2012, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-someone-replied-to-a-topic-with-fapfapfap-would-you-know-what-it-referenced/618883/11 "2012-04-15T23:17:01Z")
But not in Words With Friends. ---
**Author:** ![StephenG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7feea3/32.png) [@StephenG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StephenG)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2012, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-someone-replied-to-a-topic-with-fapfapfap-would-you-know-what-it-referenced/618883/12 "2012-04-15T23:26:50Z")
> [@Drain\_Bead](#): > > But not in Words With Friends. They’re not that kind of friends. ---
**Author:** ![Loucks](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f08c70/32.png) [@Loucks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loucks)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2012, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-someone-replied-to-a-topic-with-fapfapfap-would-you-know-what-it-referenced/618883/13 "2012-04-16T00:23:41Z")
I first saw it on The Thin H Line, which I belive was renamed to SexyLosers. If I saw someone using that to reply to a topic I would now what it meant immediately: That the poster is immature and uncreative. ---
**Author:** ![not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/not_what_you_d_expect/32/3246_2.png) [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/not_what_you_d_expect)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2012, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-someone-replied-to-a-topic-with-fapfapfap-would-you-know-what-it-referenced/618883/14 "2012-04-16T00:29:43Z")
I learned it here and it usually makes me think yuk, but once in a great while, in the right place, it will make me chuckle. ---
**Author:** ![Cazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cazzle/32/75_2.png) [@Cazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cazzle)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2012, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-someone-replied-to-a-topic-with-fapfapfap-would-you-know-what-it-referenced/618883/15 "2012-04-16T01:56:07Z")
I’ve understood it for a very long time - long enough that I can’t even remember when or where I learnt it. I had never encountered the feminine form before this thread… thanks for that. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2012, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-someone-replied-to-a-topic-with-fapfapfap-would-you-know-what-it-referenced/618883/16 "2012-04-16T01:59:05Z")
How could you ask this question on the _internet?_ ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2012, 11:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-someone-replied-to-a-topic-with-fapfapfap-would-you-know-what-it-referenced/618883/17 "2012-04-16T11:37:22Z")
News to me. I thought it sounded vaguely slap-somebody-on-the-face-with-a-fish-because-they-said-something-dumb-ish, but consider my ignorance fought. Okay, now how about “fwap”? ---
**Author:** ![Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/96bed5/32.png) [@Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Patty_O_Furniture)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2012, 1:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-someone-replied-to-a-topic-with-fapfapfap-would-you-know-what-it-referenced/618883/18 "2012-04-16T13:04:06Z")
No idea. It sounds like when a film has finished rewinding and the end piece of it is fapping around the take-up reel. ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2012, 1:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-someone-replied-to-a-topic-with-fapfapfap-would-you-know-what-it-referenced/618883/19 "2012-04-16T13:06:43Z")
Yeup. Ran across it at an adult webcomic Sexy Losers many, many years ago. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2012, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-someone-replied-to-a-topic-with-fapfapfap-would-you-know-what-it-referenced/618883/20 "2012-04-16T14:05:26Z")
> [@Patty\_O\_Furniture](#): > > No idea. It sounds like when a film has finished rewinding and the end piece of it is fapping around the take-up reel. A porn movie? [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-someone-replied-to-a-topic-with-fapfapfap-would-you-know-what-it-referenced/618883.md?page=2)