Source : WordNet®

zap
     v 1: strike suddenly and with force; "This show zaps the viewers
          with some shocking scenes"
     2: kill with or as if with a burst of gunfire or electric
        current or as if by shooting; "in this computer game,
        space travellers are vaporized by aliens" [syn: {vaporize}]
     3: strike at with firepower or bombs; "zap the enemy" [syn: {nuke},
         {atomize}, {atomise}]
     4: cook or heat in a microwave oven; "You can microwave the
        left-overs" [syn: {microwave}, {micro-cook}, {nuke}]
     [also: {zapping}, {zapped}]

Source : Free On-Line Dictionary of Computing

ZAP
     
        1.  A language for expressing program
        transformations.
     
        ["A System for Assisting Program Transformation",
        M.S. Feather, ACM TOPLAS 4(1):1-20, Jan 1982].
     
        2. {Zero and Add Packed}.
     
        (2001-03-25)

zap
     
         1. To modify, usually to correct; especially used
        when the action is performed with a debugger or binary
        patching tool.  Also implies surgical precision.  "Zap the
        debug level to 6 and run it again."
     
        In the {IBM} {mainframe} world, binary patches are applied to
        programs or to the {operating system} with a program called
        "{superzap}", whose file name is "IMASPZAP" (possibly
        contrived from I M A SuPerZAP).
     
        See also {Zero and Add Packed}.
     
        2. To {fry} a chip with static electricity.  "Uh oh - I think
        that lightning strike may have zapped the disk controller."
     
        (1998-07-08)