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On tap   /ɑn tæp/   Listen
noun
Tap  n.  
1.
A hole or pipe through which liquor is drawn.
2.
A plug or spile for stopping a hole pierced in a cask, or the like; a faucet.
3.
Liquor drawn through a tap; hence, a certain kind or quality of liquor; as, a liquor of the same tap. (Colloq.)
4.
A place where liquor is drawn for drinking; a taproom; a bar. (Colloq.)
5.
(Mech.) A tool for forming an internal screw, as in a nut, consisting of a hardened steel male screw grooved longitudinally so as to have cutting edges.
On tap.
(a)
Ready to be drawn; as, ale on tap.
(b)
Broached, or furnished with a tap; as, a barrel on tap.
Plug tap (Mech.), a screw-cutting tap with a slightly tapering end.
Tap bolt, a bolt with a head on one end and a thread on the other end, to be screwed into some fixed part, instead of passing through the part and receiving a nut.
Tap cinder (Metal.), the slag of a puddling furnace.





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"On tap" Quotes from Famous Books



... contents of his glass, and set it down with a bang on the table as he fixed his eyes on Tap's face, and from the succeeding observations Tap realized that his sympathy and would-be friendly overture had been as gall in the mouth of his companion, who, unused to anything save the rugged bluntness of a wild, free life, took the mealy-mouthed sentence as a slight on ...
— Colonial Born - A tale of the Queensland bush • G. Firth Scott
... so on creation, Folks haven't time to talk or sing or cry or even laugh. But if you take the notion to want some such emotion, They've got it all on tap fur you, ...
— Poems of Sentiment • Ella Wheeler Wilcox
... tinged with a philosophy which appears to have been always kept on tap, closes this chapter of his remarkable career. ...
— Something of Men I Have Known - With Some Papers of a General Nature, Political, Historical, and Retrospective • Adlai E. Stevenson
... a plain cue for Harold Burbank to launch out on the story of his life; but, say, he didn't need any such encouragement. He was a willin' and ready converser, Harold was; and—my!—what a lot of classy words he did have on tap! First off I wondered how it was a youngster like him could dig up so many; but when I'd heard a little more about him I could account for ...
— Odd Numbers - Being Further Chronicles of Shorty McCabe • Sewell Ford


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