Word.ws English Dictionary

tapping up

tapping up noun: making an approach to a player, under contract to another club, in order to attempt to negotiate a transfer.

Noun

tapping up (uncountable)

  1. (Ireland, UK) Making an approach to a player, under contract to another club, in order to attempt to negotiate a transfer.

Questions about tapping up

What does tapping up mean?
Tapping up means making an approach to a player, under contract to another club, in order to attempt to negotiate a transfer.
What part of speech is tapping up?
Tapping up is a noun.

Words near tapping up in the dictionary

  1. tapping off
  2. tapping on
  3. tapping one's toes
  4. tapping out
  5. tapping the admiral
  6. tapping up
  7. tappingly
  8. tappings
  9. tappish
  10. tappished
  11. tappishes

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: tapping up (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “tapping up.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/tapping_up. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.