tap

A conical peg or pin used to close and open the hole or vent in a container.

An object with a tapering conical form like a tap (etymology 1 sense 1); specifically, ellipsis of taproot (“long, tapering root of a plant”).

A hollow device used to control the flow of a fluid, such as an alcoholic beverage from a cask, or a gas or liquid in a pipe.

We don’t have bottled water; you’ll have to get it from the tap.

Is the tap water here safe to drink?

A hollow device used to control the flow of a fluid, such as an alcoholic beverage from a cask, or a gas or liquid in a pipe.

abdominal tap    pleural tap    spinal tap

Liquor drawn through a tap (etymology 1 sense 2.2); hence, a certain kind or quality of liquor; also (figurative, informal), a certain kind or quality of any thing.

a liquor of the same tap

Here he produced a decanter of curiously light wine, and a block of curiously heavy cake, and administered instalments of those dainties to the young people: at the same time, sending out a meagre servant to offer a glass of "something" to the postboy, who answered that he thanked the gentleman, but if it was the same tap as he had tasted before, he had rather not.

To furnish (a container, etc.) with a tap (noun etymology 1 sense 2.2) so that liquid can be drawn.

There's a very pretty brew in tap at The Pure Drop—though, to be sure, not so good as at Rolliver's.

Vladimir Putin, Russian prime minister, on Tuesday opened the tap to Nord Stream at a compressor station near Vyborg, north-west Russia.

To draw off (a liquid) from a container or other source; also, to draw off a liquid from (a container or other source).

He tapped the ten-year-old whiskey from its barrel.

If we tap the maple trees, we can get maple syrup.

To draw off (a liquid) from a container or other source; also, to draw off a liquid from (a container or other source).

It is a hard thing to empty the vvater contained in the breaſt, becauſe the vvaies are not open by vvhich it ſhould be brought forth. Therefore Hippocrates doth adviſe to open the ſide, vvhich becauſe vve never ſee practiſed, and never read in any Author that it vvas done vvith good ſucceſs, vve cannot abſolutely approve; and vve may ſpeak of it as vve have of the Opening or Tapping for the Dropſie, in its proper Chapter.

[…] I have, ever since my cure, been very thirsty and dropsical; therefore, I presume, it would be much better to tap me, and drink me off, than eat me at once, and have no man in the ship fit to be drunk.

To break into or open up (a thing) so as to obtain something; to exploit, to penetrate; tap into.

Businesses are trying to tap the youth market.

He tried to tap cable television without a subscription.

To deplete (something); to tap out.

At the range of a couple of hundred yards we emptied our magazines, firing bullet after bullet into the beasts, but with no more effect than if we were pelting them with pellets of paper. Their slow reptilian natures cared nothing for wounds, and the springs of their lives, with no special brain centre but scattered throughout their spinal cords, could not be tapped by any modern weapons.

To strike (someone or something), chiefly lightly with a clear sound, but sometimes hard.

She tapped him on the shoulder to get his attention.

Let vs then get vviſdome in the guiding of all our ſpeeches, and perſvvaſions. Imitate the threſher, vvhen thou art to deale vvith thy Brother; vvho firſt Tappeth his Corne in the ſheafe, before he lay on greater ſtroakes, for elſe the good graine vvould fly into euery corner, and the ſtravv not endure the flayle: ſo, begin by degrees vvith another, and vvhen he vvill endure Tapping, then ſmite harder, or elſe thou doſt but labour in vaine.

To strike (someone or something), chiefly lightly with a clear sound, but sometimes hard.

We are certainly scented here, and I walk about like a barrel of beer at Christmas, under hourly apprehension of being tapped!

"You have to pack up and get out of there, girl. You could end up being tapped for that pimp's murder. The police ain't gonna hear about finding your aunt Viv. Or about Andre's butt. What are y'all going to do if they point the finger at him? If the cops over there are like they are over here, they ain't gonna look no further than the first black man they can put their hands on. They'll put his long legs under the jail."

To strike (someone or something), chiefly lightly with a clear sound, but sometimes hard.

I would tap that hot girl over there.

I’d tap that.

To strike (someone or something), chiefly lightly with a clear sound, but sometimes hard.

Heard that, too, Rose said. A thirtyeight revolver. Only you tapped him with a rifle from a hundred yards out.

Not something he worried a lot about since in his line of work, chances were better than good that he wasn't going to live that long. When your job was to step between a bullet and its intended recipient, sooner or later you were going to be tapped, for sure.

To (lightly) touch (a finger, foot, or other body part) on a surface, often repeatedly.

You can pay by tapping your card.

He was so nervous he began to tap his fingers on the table.