lovetap
lovetap noun: a light punch or other rough tap, performed in a friendly or affectionate manner.
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.
- It was out of all precedent for us to do anything of that kind, for often on our honeymoon, when inspired to give him a love-tap or a fervent kiss, my husband would say: “Oh, spare me that, if there is anything more disgusting in a wife than such constant demonstrations let me know it.”1911, S. Ella Wood Dean, Love's Purple, page 264
- 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
- She hadn’t hit her head very hard. It was only a love tap compared to some of the bone-crushing smashes I’d seen delivered against those beams.1967, Richard Brautigan, A Confederate General from Big Sur, page 97
Forms of lovetap
| plural | lovetaps |
|---|---|
| alternative form | love tap |
| alternative form | love-tap |
Origin of lovetap
From love + tap.
Questions about lovetap
- What does lovetap mean?
- Lovetap means a light punch or other rough tap, performed in a friendly or affectionate manner.
- What part of speech is lovetap?
- Lovetap is a noun.
- What is the plural of lovetap?
- The plural of lovetap is lovetaps.
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