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Definition of Tap out
1. Verb. Beat out a rhythm.
Definition of Tap out
1. Verb. (transitive) To produce (a message, rhythm, or other thing) by tapping. ¹
2. Verb. (context: combat sports) To submit to an opponent by tapping one's hand repeatedly either on the arena or the opponent's body. ¹
3. Verb. (context: combat sports transitive) To force (an opponent) to submit. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tap Out
Literary usage of Tap out
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Practical Dictionary of the English and German Languages by Felix Flügel (1874)
"va 1. to draw, tap out; 2. to sell (liquor) by retail from the barrel. it (ш.)
vn to cease kicking, n, (IT.) в. n. to ceas« loitering. [, (ic.) v. ..."
2. The Statutes at Large from the Magna Charta, to the End of the Eleventh by Great Britain (1794)
"Common brewers who brew to fell or tap out publicly or privately ... Common brewers
who brew to fell or tap out. publicly or privately, ..."
3. The Doctrine of Formal Discipline in the Light of Experimental Investigation by Nellie Priscilla Hewins (1916)
"Record was kept of the time taken to tap out the series. Six different symbols
were then used in a new series and the subjects' time-record taken as before. ..."
4. Eastern Standard Tribe by Cory Doctorow (2005)
"My fingers, splayed over the keypad, tap out the old nervous rhythms of the phone
numbers I've known all ... I tap out her number and hit the commit button. ..."
5. The Statutes of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland [1807-1868/69] by Great Britain, George Kettilby Rickards (1830)
"... brewed by the common Brewer or any other Person or Persons who doth or shall
sell or tap out Beer or Ale publicly or privately, to be paid by the common ..."
6. Burn's Justice of the Peace and Parish Officer: Containing the Cases by Thomas Chitty, Richard Burn (1845)
"for every barrel of (vs. beer or ale, or мег. brewed by the common brewer or any
other person or persons wh> or shall sell or tap out such beer or ale ..."
7. Sporting Firearms by Horace Kephart (1912)
"To remove either, insert a bullet jacket extractor, such as is issued to troops
in the company repair kit, and tap out with a cleaning rod; or, ..."
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