taps
noun
Meaning
- A tapering cylindrical pin or peg used to stop the vent in a cask.
- A device used to dispense liquids.
- Liquor drawn through a tap; hence, a certain kind or quality of liquor.
- A place where liquor is drawn for drinking.
- A device used to cut an internal screw thread. (External screw threads are cut with a die.)
- A connection made to an electrical or fluid conductor without breaking it.
- To furnish with taps.
- To draw off liquid from a vessel.
- To deplete, especially of a liquid via a tap; to tap out.
- To exploit.
- To place a listening or recording device on a telephone or wired connection.
- To intercept a communication without authority.
- A gentle or slight blow; a light rap; a pat.
- The act of touching a touch screen.
- A piece of leather fastened upon the bottom of a boot or shoe in repairing or renewing the sole or heel.
- A signal, by drum or trumpet, for extinguishing all lights in soldiers' quarters and retiring to bed; usually given about a quarter of an hour after tattoo.
- A consonant sound made by a single muscle contraction, such as the sound [ɾ] in the standard American English pronunciation of body.
- To strike lightly.
- To touch one's finger, foot, or other body parts on a surface (usually) repeatedly.
- To make a sharp noise.
- To operate an electronic device (e.g. a mobile phone) by tapping a specific place on its (capacitive or other) touch screen.
- To designate for some duty or for membership, as in 'a tap on the shoulder'.
- To have sexual intercourse with.
- A rhythmic dance in which the heels and toes of the dancer's shoes make a series of clicks
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