mod. and tapped out. broke. : The consumer is just about tapped. Don't expect much buying in that sector.
mod. and tapped out. exhausted. : I need a nap. I'm tapped out.
mod. and tapped out. ruined. : We are tapped. That really did it to us.
mod. arrested. (As if one were tapped on the shoulder by a police officer.) : I knew I was gonna get tapped eventually, but I just couldn't stop stealing.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition. Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Tapped outis always a great word to know.
So is doohickey. Does it mean:
So is bezoar. Does it mean:
So is quincunx. Does it mean:
a gadget; dingus; thingumbob.
a chattering or flighty, light-headed person.
a calculus or concretion found in the stomach or intestines of certain animals, esp. ruminants, formerly reputed to be an effective remedy for poison.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle.
a screen or mat covered with a dark material for shielding a camera lens from excess light or glare.
