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double-tap

double-tap is the alternative form of double tap.

Meaning of double tap

Verb

double tap (third-person singular simple present double taps, present participle double tapping, simple past and past participle double tapped)

  1. To shoot twice in rapid succession.
  2. To click twice on a touchscreen.
    • Peitz tapped the screen and scrolled through a variety of drink icons. He double tapped a couple of others to add the extras and the comm dinged once it registered the final selection.2020 June 27, Chad V. Holtkamp, The Spook & Goon Space Adventures Series: Missions 4-6 (The SPOOK & GOON Space Adventures Series Boxset), CVH Group, Inc., →ISBN, →OCLC

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Forms of double-tap

third-person singular presentdouble-taps
present participledouble-tapping
past participledouble-tapped
pastdouble-tapped

Questions about double-tap

What is double-tap the alternative form of?
Double-tap is the alternative form of double tap.

Words near double-tap in the dictionary

  1. double-take
  2. double-takes
  3. double-talk
  4. double-talker
  5. double-talkers
  6. double-tap
  7. double-tapped
  8. double-tapping
  9. double-taps
  10. double-team
  11. double-teamed

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Adapted from Wiktionary: double-tap (page history and authors); double tap (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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