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tapow

tapow is the alternative spelling of tapao.

Meaning of tapao

Verb

tapao (mostly invariable)

  1. (Malaysia, Manglish, Singapore, Singlish, ambitransitive, invariable) To order (food) as takeaway; to pack food so it can be consumed elsewhere.
    • Recently, my friend ‘tapao’ (packed) 20 packets of kolo mee before she flew back to Kuala Lumpur.2012 September 4, Wilfred Pilo, “Kolo-mee the signature dish of Kuching”, in The Borneo Post, Kuching, Malaysia, →OCLC, archived from the original on 19 Sep 2014

Questions about tapow

What is tapow the alternative spelling of?
Tapow is the alternative spelling of tapao.

Words near tapow in the dictionary

  1. Taporug
  2. Taposa
  3. tapotage
  4. tapotement
  5. tapotements
  6. tapow
  7. Tapp
  8. tappa
  9. tappable
  10. Tappahannock
  11. tappal

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Adapted from Wiktionary: tapow (page history and authors); tapao (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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