tapped

T1A1P3P3E1D2
/tæpt/

adjective

Having a tap or taps.

“a tapped keg; a tapped maple tree”

Opposite
Less commonScrabble 11

Meanings

verb
  1. participlepastsimple past and past participle of tap
adjectivetapped (comparative more tapped, superlative most tapped)

comparative more tapped · superlative most tapped

  1. Having a tap or taps.

    a tapped keg; a tapped maple tree

  2. board gamescard gamesOf a card or playing piece: used up for the current turn.
  3. slangCrazy, eccentric.

    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.

    2021, Dorothy Preston, Getting Off the Radiator
    1 more example

    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.

    1992, Lucy Hickman, The Addams Family (video game review in Crash issue 98, April 1992)
  4. Multicultural London EnglishUnfocused, inattentive; dozy.

Synonyms & antonyms

adjectivein a condition for letting out liquid drawn out as by piercing or drawing a plug

Opposite

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Rhymes & wordplay

Rhymes with tapped

All rhymes →
Cite this entry
APA

tapped. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/tapped

MLA

“tapped.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/tapped. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “tapped,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/tapped.

Source: tapped on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.