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taper

Pronunciation: /ta.pe/

“taper” is a French word. Its 9 meanings in English:

verb

  1. to slap, knock, beat
  2. to type (use a keyboard or typewriter)
  3. to ask (someone) for money, to ask to borrow some money from
  4. to hit, to beat, to rap
  5. to beat down (of the sun); to go to one's head (of wine etc.)
  6. to stink, pong, reek
  7. to put away (a meal etc.)
  8. to fuck (have sex)
  9. to put up with

In French

  1. Frapper du plat de la main, battre, donner un ou plusieurs coups.
  2. Frapper, cogner, toquer pour produire un bruit.
  3. Frapper trois coups pour annoncer le début du spectacle.
  4. Mal jouer de la musique en frappant sans nuance sur un instrument.
  5. Dactylographier, écrire à la machine ou à l'ordinateur, les doigts frappant le clavier.
  6. Jouer, le complément d’objet désignant des cartes ou un jeu de cartes.
  7. Prendre.
  8. Se faire donner ou prêter de l'argent.
  9. Frapper, donner un ou plusieurs coups, rosser, heurter, cogner.
  10. En parlant du soleil, frapper par sa puissance ou sa luminosité.
  11. Frapper, atteindre.
  12. Monter à la tête, enivrer.

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French taper, from Old French tapper, taper (“to tap”), of Germanic origin, from Frankish *tappōn, *dabbōn (“to strike”) or from Middle Low German tappen, tapen (“to tap, rap, strike”). Related to German tappen (“to grope, fumble”), Dutch deppen (“to dab”), Icelandic tappa, tapsa, tæpta (“to tap”). Related to dab.

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