tap

1. (transitive)transitive

2. (transitive)Examples: "He tapped the ten-year-old whiskey from its barrel."; "If we tap the maple trees, we can get maple syrup."; "Theſe Buſſards thinke knowledge a burthen, tapping it before they haue halfe tunde it, venting it before they haue filled it, […]"transitive

3. (transitive)Examples: "It is a hard thing to empty the vvater contained in the breaſt, becauſe the vvaies are not open by vvhich it ſhould be brought forth. Therefore Hippocrates doth adviſe to open the ſide, vvhich becauſe vve never ſee practiſed, and never read in any Author that it vvas done vvith good ſucceſs, vve cannot abſolutely approve; and vve may ſpeak of it as vve have of the Opening or Tapping for the Dropſie, in its proper Chapter."; "[…] I have, ever since my cure, been very thirsty and dropsical; therefore, I presume, it would be much better to tap me, and drink me off, than eat me at once, and have no man in the ship fit to be drunk."informaltransitive

4. (transitive)Examples: "Businesses are trying to tap the youth market."; "He tried to tap cable television without a subscription."; "Ye ſee maſters yͭ one end tapt of this my ſhort deuiſe / Now muſt we broche thoter to, before the ſmoke ariſe / And by the time they haue a while run."figurativelytransitive

5. (transitive)Examples: "At the range of a couple of hundred yards we emptied our magazines, firing bullet after bullet into the beasts, but with no more effect than if we were pelting them with pellets of paper. Their slow reptilian natures cared nothing for wounds, and the springs of their lives, with no special brain centre but scattered throughout their spinal cords, could not be tapped by any modern weapons."figurativelytransitive

6. (transitive)Examples: "I tried to tap a cigarette off him, but he wouldn’t give me one."; "Thanks, old man, Hynes said. I'll tap him too. […] Three bob I lent him in Meagher's. Three weeks. Third hint."Synonyms: beg, blag, bum, cadge, leech, mooch, scrounge, spongefigurativelyinformaltransitive

1. (transitive)Examples: "She tapped him on the shoulder to get his attention."; "Let vs then get vviſdome in the guiding of all our ſpeeches, and perſvvaſions. Imitate the threſher, vvhen thou art to deale vvith thy Brother; vvho firſt Tappeth his Corne in the ſheafe, before he lay on greater ſtroakes, for elſe the good graine vvould fly into euery corner, and the ſtravv not endure the flayle: ſo, begin by degrees vvith another, and vvhen he vvill endure Tapping, then ſmite harder, or elſe thou doſt but labour in vaine."; "I hope, continued the ſtranger, ſtroking dovvn the face of his mule vvith his left-hand as he vvas going to mount it, that you have been kind to this faithful ſlave of mine—it has carried me and my cloak-bag, continued he, tapping the mule's back, above ſix hundred leagues."transitive

2. (transitive)Examples: "We are certainly scented here, and I walk about like a barrel of beer at Christmas, under hourly apprehension of being tapped!"; ""You have to pack up and get out of there, girl. You could end up being tapped for that pimp's murder. The police ain't gonna hear about finding your aunt Viv. Or about Andre's butt. What are y'all going to do if they point the finger at him? If the cops over there are like they are over here, they ain't gonna look no further than the first black man they can put their hands on. They'll put his long legs under the jail.""; ""Ain't gone be no Rikers Island for you next time," I warned him. "You get tapped on another gun charge and you looking at some upstate time.""slangtransitive

3. (transitive)Examples: "I would tap that hot girl over there."; "I’d tap that."; "What does waiting get you? Sure, I know the score, Connie. You ain't never been tapped. But what are you saving it for? It's either going to be me or some other guy. Look, if I join up with the Dags I gotta have a deb that gives. If I don't, all the guys will be ranking me."Synonyms: hit, wap, Formal terms, bed, coit, coitize, dight, enjoyslangtransitivevulgar

4. (transitive)Examples: "Heard that, too, Rose said. A thirtyeight revolver. Only you tapped him with a rifle from a hundred yards out."; "Not something he worried a lot about since in his line of work, chances were better than good that he wasn't going to live that long. When your job was to step between a bullet and its intended recipient, sooner or later you were going to be tapped, for sure."; "Fuck a tap dance niggas head get tapped If you not a real member you won't get a pass"slangtransitive

5. (transitive)Examples: "You can pay by tapping your card."; "He was so nervous he began to tap his fingers on the table."; "The bystanders began now to loook at each other, nod, wink significantly, and tap their fingers against their foreheads."Synonyms: hit, patter, pound, rap, strike, bang, baste, battertransitive

6. (transitive)Examples: "Next, tap on the browser to get on the internet."Synonyms: hit, patter, pound, rap, strike, bang, baste, battertransitive

1. (countable)Examples: "When Steve felt a tap on his shoulder, he turned around."; "And much greater is the wrong that rewardeth euill for good, than that which requireth tip for tap: […]"; "[T]his is the right fencing grace, my Lord, tap for tap, and ſo part faire."countableuncountable

2. (countable)Examples: "For to the first floor his duties never took him, at this period, nor to the second, once he had made his bed, and swept clean his little room, which he did every morning the first thing, before coming down, on an empty stomach. Whereas Erskine never did a tap on the ground floor, but all his duties were on the first floor."; "That put an end to work. They've hardly done a tap since. By now we should have half the season's copra stacked and ready for shipping. But you saw the plantation. Nothing done at all."; "Bone idle, Charlie was, he had never done a tap in the house, always 'busy' whenever she asked him to do anything."countableinformaluncountable

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6. (countable)Synonyms: flapcountableuncountable

1. (India, chiefly East India) A malarial fever.Examples: "According to the Yunani hakims dengue is a "tap safrow"—a fever due to excess of bile, and it is wonderful the amount of dark colored bile that passes away after a purgative, especially if that is not administered until the third day."; "[…] in despair, he fell back on the unfailing reason (to the native mind) for every unaccountable action, and declared that the horses had tap, or fever. ¶ "Oh, that's all nonsense, Sooka!" replied Blunt to this assertion of his subordinate. They were walking along between the rows of stalls, making their morning inspection, and closely examining into the condition of every animal: "that's all nonsense! there's no tap here. Every one of them is as cool and nice as he can be—perfect pictures of condition most of them, No, no; there's no fever whatever amongst them.""; "The country, my entertainer informed me, was considered perfectly safe, unless I feared the tap, the bad kind of fever which infests all the country at the base of the hills."EastIndiauncountable

1. (advertising) Initialism of total audience package: an offering that includes ads broadcast during every part of the schedule.abbreviationalt-ofcountableinitialismuncountable