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lovetaps

lovetaps is the plural of lovetap.

Meaning of lovetap

Noun

lovetap (plural lovetaps)

  1. 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.
  2. (broadly) 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

Questions about lovetaps

What is lovetaps the plural of?
Lovetaps is the plural of lovetap.

Words near lovetaps in the dictionary

  1. lovestory
  2. lovestruck
  3. lovesweat
  4. loveta
  5. lovetap
  6. lovetaps
  7. loveteam
  8. loveteams
  9. loveth
  10. Lovett
  11. Lovett Bay

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