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To furnish with taps.
example
If we tap the maple trees, we can get maple syrup!
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To draw off liquid from a vessel.
example
He tapped a new barrel of beer.
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To deplete, especially of a liquid via a tap; to tap out.
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To exploit.
example
Businesses are trying to tap the youth market.
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To place a listening or recording device on a telephone or wired connection.
example
They can't tap the phone without a warrant.
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To intercept a communication without authority.
example
He was known to tap cable television.
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To cut an internal screw thread.
example
Tap an M3 thread all the way through the hole.
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To turn or flip a card or playing piece to remind players that it has already been used that turn (by analogy to "tapping," in the sense of drawing on to the point of temporary exhaustion, the resources or abilities represented by the card).
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To cadge, borrow or beg.
example
I tried to tap a cigarette off him, but he wouldn't give me one.
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To drain off fluid by paracentesis.
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To advance someone for a post or job, or for membership of a club.
example
Trump interviewed Mueller for FBI job day before he was tapped for special counsel.