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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. 1

    A tapering cylindrical pin or peg used to stop the vent in a cask.

  2. 2

    A device used to dispense liquids.

    "We don't have bottled water; you'll have to get it from the tap."

  3. 3

    Liquor drawn through a tap; hence, a certain kind or quality of liquor.

    "a liquor of the same tap"

  4. 4

    A place where liquor is drawn for drinking.

verb
  1. 1

    To furnish with taps.

    "If we tap the maple trees, we can get maple syrup!"

  2. 2

    To draw off liquid from a vessel.

    "He tapped a new barrel of beer."

  3. 3

    To deplete, especially of a liquid via a tap; to tap out.

  4. 4

    To exploit.

    "Businesses are trying to tap the youth market."

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