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tapped

verbadjectivecommon in dialogue

  • //tæpt//

Having a tap or taps.

verb

  1. 1

    Also a form of tapsimple past and past participle of tap

adjective

  1. 1

    Having a tap or taps.

    a tapped keg; a tapped maple tree

  2. 2

    Of a card or playing piece: used up for the current turn.

  3. 3

    slangCrazy, eccentric.

    This is one weird tribe, who get their kicks from electrocution, poisoning and causing car crashes (and that's when they're in a good mood!). They consider a holiday in the Bermuda Triangle the ultimate and anyone who keeps floating hands as pets has to be a bit tapped.

    His eyes danced with delight, and he laughed and told me I was tapped in the head as he mussed up my hair, provoking me to kick him in the butt.

  4. 4

    Unfocused, inattentive; dozy.

Forms

comparative
more tapped
superlative
most tapped
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).