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tap out
verb- to run out of money, usually as a result of gambling US, 1939
- But if you’re tapped out, if you really want that double dime note back? — Ross Russell, The Sound, p. 159, 1961
- Those dice the house was using had a Ph.D. Every ten minutes a chump would shuffle from the rear with a “tapped out” look on his face. — Iceberg Slim (Robert Beck), Pimp, p. 100, 1969
- “Five’ll get you fifty he’s tapped out before the next track season’s over,” Heath said. — Robert Campbell, Juice, p. 313, 1988
- But I was tapped right out. I didn’t have a thing. — Herbert Huncke, Guilty of Everything, p. 107, 1990
- in a casino, to relieve a dealer from duty US, 1961
- He had been a floorman at Tropicana, but he’d tapped out a dealer for looking away from the cards, and it turned out the dealer had more juice than he did, so listen to this, he got fired for doing his job. — Elmore Leonard, Glitz, p. 124, 1985
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