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tap
verb- to borrow something, especially money UK
- I had been bell-hopping for something more than a year when Red tried to tap me for ten dollars. — Jim Thompson, Bad Boy, p. 368, 1953
- I’m the only one with any fags [cigarettes] left and they’re all tapping off me[.] — Cath Staincliffe, Trainers, p. 61, 1999
- to ask for, or imply readiness to accept, a tip UK, 1961
Used by ships’ stewards. - to successfully attract a partner for sexual intimacy UK
- Craig and Quockie have tapped, it looks like. — Niall Griffiths, Kelly + Victor, p. 59, 2002
- to have sex US
- Nobody ever tapped me. — Hal Ellson, Duke, p. 11, 1949
- — Malachi Andrews and Paul T. Owens, Black Language, p. 97, 1973
- I hear he’s tapping Edie Finneran. — The Usual Suspects, 1995
- — Don R. McCreary (Editor), Dawg Speak, 2001
- to kill someone US
- I remember ten years back when you were talking about killing a guy by that name. Did you tap him? — Mickey Spillane, Me, Hood!, p. 16, 1963
- to intercept a telephone communication UK, 1869
From an earlier sense of intercepting a telegraphic message. - Since when had freedom stooped to tap the phones of prostitutes? — Philip Wylie, Opus 21, p. 323, 1949
- in poker, to bet all of your chips, or an amount equal to an opponent’s bet, depending on context US
- — Oswald Jacoby, Oswald Jacoby on Poker, p. 138, 1947
▶ tap a kidney
to urinate US- Gonna go over t’that stand a’trees over there, and tap a kidney. — Stephen Cannell, Big Con, p. 267, 1997
▶ tap the pot
in bar dice games, to bet the total amount of the pot US- — Jester Smith, Games They Play in San Francisco, p. 105, 1971
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