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tap city
noun
when gambling, the position of being out of funds US- “One of us gonna leave here broke, man,” he’d said when we entered the toilet. “One of us gonna be Tap City.” — Harlan Ellison, Gentleman Junkie, p. 144, 1961: High Dice
- “[W]e were both doing lousy on the Celtics” (he pronounced it sellticks) “and also on the Bruins, there, and he said he was also tap city[.]” — George V. Higgins, The Judgment of Deke Hunter, p. 217, 1976
- “I’m Tap City, Augie,” I said. — James Ellroy, Brown’s Requiem, p. 192, 1981
- — David M. Hayano, Poker Faces, p. 187, 1982
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