stop-tap

noun

A stopcock.

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Meanings

nounstop-tap (plural stop-taps)

plural stop-taps

  1. A stopcock.
  2. WalesLast orders.

    But there we were together on the pavement after stop tap, him cadging a light off me.

    2010, Gwen Davies, ‘The Professionals’, translated by William Owen Roberts, Best European Fiction 2011
    1 more example

    It was almost stop-tap time when my name came up, and that was the excuse my friends had been waiting for to shower me with beer.

    1998, Peter Jackson, Lions of Wales, page 139

Origin

From stop + tap.

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APA

stop-tap. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/stop-tap

MLA

“stop-tap.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/stop-tap. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “stop-tap,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/stop-tap.

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