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stop-tap en · NOUN

Etymology

From stop + tap.

Meanings

1. A stopcock.
2. (Wales) Last orders.
   • But there we were together on the pavement after stop tap, him cadging a light off me. 2010, Gwen Davies, ‘The Professionals’, translated by William Owen Roberts, Best European Fiction 2011:
   • It was almost stop-tap time when my name came up, and that was the excuse my friends had been waiting for to shower me with beer. 1998, Peter Jackson, Lions of Wales, page 139:

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