The Devil's Dictionary: Lap

Updated May 14, 2020 | Infoplease Staff
by Ambrose Bierce
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LAP

-n.

One of the most important organs of the female system - an admirable provision of nature for the repose of infancy, but chiefly useful in rural festivities to support plates of cold chicken and heads of adult males. The male of our species has a rudimentary lap, imperfectly developed and in no way contributing to the animal's substantial welfare.

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