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tapsnounpl. of tap a fixture for controlling the flow of a liquidturn the tap to the right for cold water and to the left for hot water cocks, faucets, gates, spigots, stopcocks, valves hydrants, spoutspetcocks tapsverb1present tense third-person singular of tapto strike or cause to strike lightly and usually rhythmicallytapped her foot in time to the music kept tapping the desk with his pencil beats, drums, raps bangs, bashes, bats, bonks, bops, hammers, hits, knocks, pastes, pounds, slams, smacks, socks, strikes, swats, thuds, thumps, thwacks, wallops, whackschinks, clatters, clinks, pingspats, pit-a-pats, pitter-patterschucks, claps, clicks, flicks, tips tapsverb2present tense third-person singular of tapto remove (liquid) gradually or completelythe oil company tapped that first well completely dry bleeds, drafts, drains, draws (off), pumps, siphons(also syphons) milkssucksclears, empties, evacuates, exhausts, vacates, vacuates, voidsdecants, effusesdepletescleans, flushes, purges fills bathes, douses(also dowses), drenches, soaks, souses, washes, waters, wetsdeluges, drowns, floods, inundates, overflowssubmerges, swamps in 1824 |