tapped
/tæpt/ adjective B1- Having a tap or taps. · a tapped keg; a tapped maple tree
- Of a card or playing piece: used up for the current turn.
- Crazy, eccentric.
- Unfocused, inattentive; dozy.
From the library
“Come,” he said to himself, “let me try if he will be more tractable than the other;” and he tapped gently at the door.
Her eyes blazed at me, and she tapped the ground impatiently with her foot.
The groom, in obedience to his orders, tapped at the window of the porter’s lodge, saying:
On the very day that I had come to this conclusion, I was standing at the Criterion Bar, when some one tapped me on the shoulder, and turning round I recognized young Stamford, who had been a dresser under me at Barts.
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