Tapped

//tæpt// adj, verb, slang

adj, verb, slang ·Moderate ·College level

Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    simple past and past participle of tap form-of, participle, past
Adjective
  1. 1
    Having a tap or taps.

    "a tapped keg; a tapped maple tree"

  2. 2
    Of a card or playing piece: used up for the current turn.
  3. 3
    Crazy, eccentric. slang

    "This is one weird tribe, who get their kicks from electrocution, poisoning and causing car crashes (and that's when they're in a good mood!). They consider a holiday in the Bermuda Triangle the ultimate and anyone who keeps floating hands as pets has to be a bit tapped."

  4. 4
    Unfocused, inattentive; dozy. Multicultural-London-English
Adjective
  1. 1
    in a condition for letting out liquid drawn out as by piercing or drawing a plug wordnet

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broached

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"Bill tapped me on the shoulder."

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