love-tap
love-tap is the alternative spelling of lovetap.
Meaning of lovetap
Noun
lovetap (plural lovetaps)
- A light punch or other rough tap, performed in a friendly or affectionate manner.
- Why am I in trouble for hitting him? It was just a lovetap! See, he's not hurt.
- A strike or collision with relatively little force, or causing relatively little damage.
- Surely you forget the manner in which my hospitality has already been requited[…] with a love-tap received over the shoulders of one of my men, by so gentle an instrument as the butt of a musket!1824, James Fenimore Cooper, The Pilot: A Tale of the Sea, page 363
Forms of love-tap
| plural | love-taps |
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Questions about love-tap
- What is love-tap the alternative spelling of?
- Love-tap is the alternative spelling of lovetap.
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Adapted from Wiktionary: love-tap (page history and authors); lovetap (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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