Usually means: Brief, sudden bursts of energy.
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  1. zaps: Merriam-Webster
  2. zaps: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. zaps: Collins English Dictionary
  4. zaps: Vocabulary.com
  5. Zap's, Zaps, zaps: Wordnik
  6. zaps: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. zaps: Wiktionary
  8. zaps: Dictionary.com
  9. zaps: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  10. zaps: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. zaps: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. ZAPS: Acronym Finder
  2. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. zaps, the zaps: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Zap)

noun:  (colloquial) A sound made by a sudden release of electricity or some similar energy.
noun:  (colloquial) An electric shock.
noun:  A raucous public demonstration designed to embarrass a public figure or celebrity as a form of political activism.
noun:  (slang) The act of heating something in a microwave oven.
verb:  (intransitive) To make a zap sound.
verb:  To use a remote control to repeatedly change channels on a television.
verb:  To strike (something or someone) with electricity or energy, as by shooting.
verb:  (US, military, slang, transitive) To kill; to eliminate.
verb:  (slang, transitive) To damage (especially electronics) with electrostatic discharge.
verb:  (slang, transitive) To heat (something) in a microwave oven.
verb:  (slang, transitive) To delete or discard (electronic media).
verb:  (slang, transitive) To further energize or charge (magnetic material).
verb:  (Singapore, informal, transitive) To photocopy.
verb:  To participate in a zap (protest) against.
noun:  A city and town in North Dakota.
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