Word Meaning

Meaning of "taps" and the crossword clue

- Dance genre
- Draw beer from keg to find bug
- Faucet
- Gentle knock
- Knock
- Knock lightly
- Knock softly
- Let fluid out through spigot
- Lid
- Light blow
- Light hit
- Light touch
- Pat goes back to listen in on phone
- Pat makes phone bug
- Pat the odd tramp
- Pat turns up phone bug
- Pat went back for a dance
- Phone bug
- Rap lightly
- Readily available, on ...
- Return plant? Odd bug!
- Soft knock
- Sort of dance for every odd tramp
- Spigot
- Terribly apt listening device
- Valve
- Water outlet
- Bugle farewell
- Faucets from the past
- Gentle knocks
- Gold-catching devices
- Hits lightly
- Knocks
- Pats
- Presses lightly
- Stopcocks
- Touches lightly
- To strike with a slight or gentle blow; to touch gently; to rap lightly; to pat; as, to tap one with the hand or a cane.
- To put a new sole or heel on; as, to tap shoes.
- A gentle or slight blow; a light rap; a pat.
- A piece of leather fastened upon the bottom of a boot or shoe in repairing or renewing the sole or heel.
- A signal, by drum or trumpet, for extinguishing all lights in soldiers' quarters and retiring to bed, -- usually given about a quarter of an hour after tattoo.
- To strike a gentle blow.
- A hole or pipe through which liquor is drawn.
- A plug or spile for stopping a hole pierced in a cask, or the like; a faucet.
- Liquor drawn through a tap; hence, a certain kind or quality of liquor; as, a liquor of the same tap.
- A place where liquor is drawn for drinking; a taproom; a bar.
- A tool for forming an internal screw, as in a nut, consisting of a hardened steel male screw grooved longitudinally so as to have cutting edges.
- To pierce so as to let out, or draw off, a fluid; as, to tap a cask, a tree, a tumor, etc.
- Hence, to draw from (anything) in any analogous way; as, to tap telegraph wires for the purpose of intercepting information; to tap the treasury.
- To draw, or cause to flow, by piercing.
- To form an internal screw in (anything) by means of a tool called a tap; as, to tap a nut.