Zapped

/zap'd/

adj. Spicy. This term is used to distinguish between food that is hot (in temperature) and food that is spicy-hot. For example, the Chinese appetizer Bon Bon Chicken is a kind of chicken salad that is cold but zapped; by contrast, vanilla wonton soup is hot but not zapped.

See also oriental food, laser chicken.

See zap, senses 1 and 2.