Zap

A zap is an onomatopoetic word for a discharge of electricity or an electric shock.

Zap or ZAP may refer to:

People

• Zap, stage name of female bodybuilder Raye Hollitt on the TV show American Gladiators
• Zap Rowsdower, a character from the film The Final Sacrifice

Places

• Zap, North Dakota, United States
• Short for Zaprešić, a town in Croatia

Computer programming

• .ZAP File, a file extension allowing publishing of an application to users where an MSI file does not exist
• zap, the ISO 639-3 and 639-2 code for Zapotec languages

Entertainment

Books

• Zap is a half-tame female cat in the SF novel Memory by Lois McMaster Bujold

Comics

• Zap Comix, an underground comics series founded by Robert Crumb in 1968
• Zap! (webcomic), a sci-fi webcomic by Chris Layfield and Pascalle C
• Zap Zodiac, a fictional character in a comic strip in the UK comic The Beano

Television

• ZAP (satellite television) is a digital satellite television operator in Sub-saharan Africa

Other entertainment

• Zap! (computer game), a 2005 top-down shooter by GarageGames
• Zap (G.I. Joe), a fictional character in the G.I. Joe universe
• "Zap" (song), an instrumental by Eric Johnson
• ZZZap!, a 1990s British children's television programme for deaf children
• Zapping is a synonym for channel surfing
• Zap Mama, a Belgian musical group founded and led by Marie Daulne

Social

• ZAP, Zenith Applied Philosophy, a breakaway sect of Scientology based in Christchurch, New Zealand
• ZAP, Zero Aggression Principle, a personal philosophy
• Zap (action), a direct political action favored by early gay Liberation groups

Transportation

• ZAP, call sign of Titan Airways

Automobiles

• Zap, or Zaporozhets, a long-lived series of small, rear-engined Soviet Ukrainian cars
• ZAP (motor company), or Zero Air Pollution, an electric vehicle manufacturer and marketer

Military

• Zero Anti-Aircraft Potential

See also

• Zapp (disambiguation)
• zapper