tippy-tapping

Verb

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

1. To tap dance, or imitate tap dancing.
   • But to watch Errico tippy-tap into the same scenes that Kelly used to enter in a grandly aristocratic and delicious sweep; to hear Errico and co-star Randy Graff chirp drollery that Hepburn, Kelly and Celeste Holm used to fire off like Stinger missiles (jus hearing Hepburn say “Oh, goody” made a...1998 June 4, Michael Kilian, “‘High Society II’ can’t bear original”, in The Sacramento Bee, volume 283, page F2
2. To tap lightly.
   • I have always envied the starch in their shirts and the clean fingers they use to tippy-tap their computers and develop weird schematics while their fake Rolex wristwatches glitter.1997 August 3, Leonard Bishop, “Things to do on my return”, in The Manhattan Mercury, Manhattan, Kan., page D3

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