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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
tap .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective in a condition for letting out liquid drawn out as by piercing or drawing a plug
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Examples
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The label tapped GSI Commerce Inc., a firm that has developed online stores for designers including Kate Spade, BCBG Max Azria and Ralph Lauren, to revamp the site.
Betsey Johnson Faces a Makeover Ray A. Smith 2010
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It's pretentious, and it implies that the person "tapped" is somehow a resource ripe for the picking ... or a keg.
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Besides, we are very tapped from the transit mall rip-up, poodle poop park in SoWhat, Convention Center hotel, and two new bush league stadiums.
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She was barely a blip on the political scene when McCain tapped her for the '08 campaign, and now she has dumped all her political life for book tours and interviews on Oprah.
Christie, McDonnell explain Palin's absence from campaign trail 2009
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Besides, we are very tapped from the transit mall rip-up, poodle poop park in SoWhat, Convention Center hotel, and two new bush league stadiums.
Another great Sam-Rand moment for Portland (Jack Bog's Blog) 2009
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Modin tapped in his own rebound from the side of the net just over five minutes later for his first goal in nine games and ninth overall, ending a flurry of seven straight shots by Columbus.
USATODAY.com 2008
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Reaching the bottom of the stairs, Erin tapped in her keycode to unlock the enormous steel doors there.
365 tomorrows » 2008 » July : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2008
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Clean drinking water for millions, waiting to be tapped from the polar ice.
Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » Interview: Karen Dionne, part 1 2008
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Henrik Sedin tapped in a loose puck at the 10: 26 mark while a Thrashers 'player had a broken stick.
USATODAY.com 2008
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Treated as suspects, we have had our phone calls tapped and our letters and emails monitored by government agents, not to mention being subjected to fingerprint scans at amusement parks, bag searches at train stations, patdowns at stadiums and concert arenas, camera surveillance on street corners and other public places, and, most recently, whole body imaging scanners in airports.
John W. Whitehead: Attention, Walmart Shoppers: Big Sis Wants You to Spy on One Another John W. Whitehead 2010
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