double taps

Noun

double tap (plural double taps)

1. (idiomatic) A tactical shooting technique of pulling the trigger of a weapon twice in quick succession to deliver two shots to the same target zone.
2. Two shots or bullets fired in such a way.
   • “You said yourself that it looked like a professional hit with a double tap to the head. She could have hired it done and what better alibi than to be in another state when the murder took place,” Danny said.2013 July 31, Gary J. Crawford, Double Tap: A Sam Mccloud Novel, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 89
3. (broadly) A bombing strategy where the same target is attacked twice, with the second attack targeting rescuers and mourners.
   • Perhaps initially in Afghanistan, the double tap was useful as al-Qa'ida or Taliban members would collect the bodies.2016, Christine Sixta Rinehart, Drones and Targeted Killing in the Middle East and Africa: An Appraisal of American Counterterrorism Policies, Lexington Books, →ISBN, page 91
4. A form of tympanocentesis in which the middle ear fluid is sampled via needle puncture at two different stages of the process.

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