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US
/ˈtæpɝ/
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[ UK /tˈæpɐ/ ]
[ UK /tˈæpɐ/ ]
NOUN
- someone who wiretaps a telephone or telegraph wire
- a tavern keeper who taps kegs or casks
- a worker who uses a tap to cut screw threads
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a person who strikes a surface lightly and usually repeatedly
finger tappers irritated her - a dancer who sounds out rhythms by using metal taps on the toes and heels of the shoes
How To Use tapper In A Sentence
- Drawing on evidence from female villagers, one male survivor and a former Malayan police officer, he claims that all of those who died were unarmed rubber tappers and tin miners from the Chinese ethnic minority.
- This was the cue for the next furious toe-tapper. Times, Sunday Times
- W. r.t Condoleeza Rice -- which "anna" has brought up a few times -- the Jake Tapper blog post over at ABC News indicates that unless Obama saw that a cabinet member would be well outside of the mainstream, he would approve of that cabinet member. Election Central | Talking Points Memo | Obama Attacks Hillary As Calculating And Divisive
- When the golden age of Hollywood musicals faded, two young tappers appeared on television variety shows with their father as Hines, Hines, and Dad.
- But like most mestizo traders and rubber tappers of the Vaupés, he had adopted native ways, including the use of coca, or patu as he called it in Cubeo. One River
- At this time of the year it is the great 'tapper' in the trees. Times, Sunday Times
- The rebound of the gong is then taken up by the elasticity of the tapper rod, which returns to an unflexed position, and at about this time the pole piece releases the armature so that it may swing over in the other direction to cause the tapper to strike the other gong. Cyclopedia of Telephony & Telegraphy Vol. 1 A General Reference Work on Telephony, etc. etc.
- He knew Chico Mendes, leader of the rubber-tappers and social activist, whose murderers have recently been released from jail.
- Getting called a caped crusader by Jake Tapper was a definite bonus though. Balloon Juice » Blog Archive » 92% Useless
- A report by development services director Stephen Tapper says bus lanes produce considerable time savings by allowing public transport unrestricted access.
