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three-tapping

three-tapping is the present participle and gerund of three-tap.

Meaning of three-tap

Verb

three-tap (third-person singular simple present three-taps, present participle three-tapping, simple past and past participle three-tapped)

  1. (slang, transitive) To kill an enemy in three shots.
    • The ban phase is a welcome touch to ranked play because, more often than naught, I'm not in the mood to get three-tapped by some Caveira player squatting in a seemingly inconsequential hallway.2021 February 8, Calvin Edwards, “Rainbow Six: Siege Is Not as Fun as It Used to Be”, in KeenGamer, archived from the original on 09 Sep 2022

Questions about three-tapping

What is three-tapping the present participle and gerund of?
Three-tapping is the present participle and gerund of three-tap.

Words near three-tapping in the dictionary

  1. three-striped ground squirrels
  2. three-striped palm civet
  3. three-striped palm civets
  4. three-tap
  5. three-tapped
  6. three-tapping
  7. three-taps
  8. three-thousander
  9. three-thousanders
  10. three-thousandth
  11. three-tiered

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Adapted from Wiktionary: three-tapping (page history and authors); three-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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