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"lap at" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It means to lightly touch or lick something repeatedly or gently. Here is an example sentence: The dog's tongue lapped at the water in his bowl.
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The remaining four cases had LAPs without a primitive marker (three patients), or no LAP at all (one patient).
Waves lap at the shore.
Kahne turned a lap at 174.644 miles per hour.
Patrick, 34, completed her flying lap at 196.434mph.
Then the waters lap at her upstairs windows.
Ms. Lap, at Yogurteria, has a similar problem.
I was always on his lap at dinner tables.
Bamboo leaves, like long pointed tongues, lap at the edges.
Oh, and that last lap at Interlagos in 2008.
Sweat, mucus, semen, urine, and — most of all — blood lap at her characters.
Foul-smelling puddles lap at the feet of women selling rice and men selling charcoal.
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