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taps

[ taps ]

noun

, (used with a singular or plural verb)
  1. a signal by bugle or drum, sounded at night as an order to extinguish all lights, and sometimes performed as a postlude to a military funeral.


taps

/ tæps /

noun

    1. (in army camps, etc) a signal given on a bugle, drum, etc, indicating that lights are to be put out
    2. any similar signal, as at a military funeral
  1. (in the Guide movement) a closing song sung at an evening camp fire or at the end of a meeting
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of taps1

1815–25, Americanism; probably tap(too) , variant of tattoo 1 + -s 3
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Word History and Origins

Origin of taps1

C19: from tap 1
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Example Sentences

Twin buglers played “Taps” and three police helicopters flew overhead in the missing-man formation.

Tosi has been using cereal milk as a flavor ever since 2007, and she says it taps into a universal “memory sensor.”

More than 15,000 households have had their taps turned off for being past due.

Likely, The Woodman taps the facilities of a much larger, more-specialized operation like Loyalsock Firewood in Montoursville.

Those phone taps suggested the pair may have co-opted a judge for insider information.

No notice being taken of the taps, the unseen visitor, after a short lapse, ventured to open the door and peep in.

If a supply was required during the day it could be given by a pipe with two taps.

The candle flickered on until "taps," when the guards, with unconscious irony shouted, "Lights out!"

There was a hubbub around the fire that kept everybody from paying the least attention to "taps."

Fill the vessels with water and lay the corks with their rods upon its surface, and set both taps running together.

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