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spinal taps

spinal taps is the plural of spinal tap.

Meaning of spinal tap

Noun

spinal tap (plural spinal taps)

  1. (colloquial) Lumbar puncture (LP).
    • Then they tested my spinal column. They gave me a spinal tap even.2017, Sam Shepard, Spy of the First Person, →ISBN, page 5

Questions about spinal taps

What is spinal taps the plural of?
Spinal taps is the plural of spinal tap.

Words near spinal taps in the dictionary

  1. spinal nerve
  2. spinal nerves
  3. spinal tap
  4. Spinal Tap-ian
  5. Spinal Tapian
  6. spinal taps
  7. Spinale
  8. Spinales
  9. spinalise
  10. spinalised
  11. spinalization

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Adapted from Wiktionary: spinal taps (page history and authors); spinal 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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