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Tap
/tæp/
A tapering cylindrical pin or peg used to stop the vent in a cask.
📖 Definitions of "Tap"
noun
- 1
A tapering cylindrical pin or peg used to stop the vent in a cask.
- 2
A device used to dispense liquids.
"We don't have bottled water; you'll have to get it from the tap."
- 3
Liquor drawn through a tap; hence, a certain kind or quality of liquor.
"a liquor of the same tap"
- 4
A place where liquor is drawn for drinking.
verb
- 1
To furnish with taps.
"If we tap the maple trees, we can get maple syrup!"
- 2
To draw off liquid from a vessel.
"He tapped a new barrel of beer."
- 3
To deplete, especially of a liquid via a tap; to tap out.
- 4
To exploit.
"Businesses are trying to tap the youth market."
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