Zap or ZAP may refer to:

Places

Zap, North Dakota Zap is a city in Mercer County, North Dakota, United States. The population was 221 at the 2020 census. Zap was founded in 1913 along a branch line of the Northern Pacific Railway that began in Mandan. The exact origin of the name is uncertain ...

, US * Zhuozhou East railway station, China Railway telegraph code ZAP *

The Zap The Zap was a beach-front nightclub and performance arts venue, in Brighton, England that became known in the late 1980s and early 1990s particularly for its acid house nights. It has been described as an "influential ... club which pulled toget ...

, now The Arch, a nightclub in Brighton, England *

Great Zab The Great Zab or Upper Zab (; or ; ; ) is an approximately long river flowing through Turkey and Iraq. It rises in Turkey near Lake Van and joins the Tigris in Iraq south of Mosul. During its course, the river collects water from many tributar ...

, a river in Turkey and Iraq *

Little Zab The Little Zab or Lower Zab (, ''al-Zāb al-Asfal''; or '; , ''Zâb-e Kuchak''; , ''Zāba Taḥtāya'') is a river that originates in Iran and joins the Tigris just south of Al Zab in the Kurdistan region of Iraq. The Little Zab is approximatel ...

, a river in Iran and Iraq

Arts and entertainment

Comics

* ''

Zap Comix ''Zap Comix'' is an underground comix series which was originally part of the Counterculture of the 1960s, counterculture of the late 1960s. While a few small-circulation self-published satirical comic books had been printed prior to this, ''Zap' ...

'', an underground comics series founded by Robert Crumb in 1968

Fictional characters

* Zap (G.I. Joe), in the G.I. Joe universe * Zap Rowsdower, in the 1990 film '' The Final Sacrifice'' * Zap Zodiac, a 2005 ''Beano'' comic strip character

Other

ZAP (satellite television) ZAP is a digital satellite television provider mainly for Portuguese-speaking countries in sub-Saharan Africa. ZAP launched in Angola in 2010, providing a subscription based TV service covering the sub-Saharan countries to south of Angola. ZAP op ...

, a digital satellite television operator in Portuguese-speaking sub-Saharan Africa * '' Zap! Snowboarding Trix'', a 1997 video game * ''Z.A.P.'', a 2008 video game by

GarageGames GarageGames was a game technology and software developer. GarageGames was the parent company of GG Interactive, developers of educational technology in the areas of computer science, video game development and Computer programming, programming. I ...

* "Zap", a 1986 instrumental by Eric Johnson from '' Tones'' * Zap.com, a 1998-2000 website run by Zapata Corporation, now known as

HRG Group HRG Group, Inc., formerly Harbinger Group Inc. and Zapata Corporation, was a holding company based in Rochester, New York, having originated from an oil company started by a group including future U.S. president George H. W. Bush. In 2009, ...

Science and technology

* ZAP File, a computer file extension *

ZAP (software) ZAP (Zed Attack Proxy) is a dynamic application security testing tool published under the Apache License. When used as a proxy server it allows the user to manipulate all of the traffic that passes through it, including HTTPS encrypted traffic. ...

, a web application security tool * Zinc finger antiviral protein (ZAP) in mammals * Zoster-associated pain, a symptom of herpes zoster (shingles) * ZAP, an instruction mnemonic in

IBM Basic assembly language The IBM Basic assembly language and successors is a series of assembly languages and assemblers made for the IBM System/360 mainframe system and its successors through the IBM Z. The first of these, the Basic Assembly Language (BAL), is an ...

* Zap Energy, an American company that aims to commercialize fusion power * zapping, rapidly flashing light

Transportation

ZAP (motor company) ZAP was an American company that specialized in electric vehicles of various types, such as cars, motorcycles, bicycles, scooters, watercraft, hovercraft, ATVs and commercial vehicles. Its name was an acronym for Zero Air Pollution. It was base ...

, an American electric vehicle maker * Zap flap, a type of aircraft wing flap *

Titan Airways Titan Airways Limited is a British charter airline based at London Stansted Airport. The carrier specialises in short-notice ACMI (aircraft, crew, maintenance, and insurance) and wet lease operations, as well as ad-hoc passenger and cargo char ...

(callsign)

Other uses

Zap (action) A zap is a form of political direct action that came into use in the 1970s in the United States. Popularized by the early gay liberation group Gay Activists Alliance, a zap was a raucous public demonstration designed to embarrass a public figure o ...

, a form of political direct action * AGR-14 ZAP, a US Navy air-to-surface unguided rocket *

Raye Hollitt Raye Hollitt (born April 17, 1964) is an American actress and bodybuilder, also known by her stage name Zap, one of the original cast members of '' American Gladiators''. Biography Hollitt graduated from Lake-Lehman High School in 1982, then wo ...

(born 1964), American bodybuilder known as Zap on the TV show ''American Gladiators'' *

Zapotec languages The Zapotec languages are a group of around 50 closely related indigenous languages of Mesoamerica, indigenous Mesoamerican languages that constitute a main branch of the Oto-Manguean languages, Oto-Manguean language family and are spoken by th ...

(ISO 639-3 and 639-2 codes), spoken in Mexico * Zenith Applied Philosophy, a New Zealand sect of Scientology * Zero Aggression Principle, a personal philosophy