Lovetap

Pronunciation varies by accent · noun

Meaning

A light punch or other rough tap, performed in a friendly or affectionate manner..

Definitions by Sense

1. A light punch or other rough tap, performed in a friendly or affectionate manner.
2. (by extension) A strike or collision with relatively little force, or causing relatively little damage.

Example Sentences

Why am I in trouble for hitting him? It was just a lovetap! See, he's not hurt.

It was out of all precedent for us to do anything of that kind, for often on our honeymoon, when inspired to give him a love-tap or a fervent kiss, my husband would say: “Oh, spare me that, if there is anything more disgusting in a wife than such constant demonstrations let me know it.”

Surely you forget the manner in which my hospitality has already been requited[…] with a love-tap received over the shoulders of one of my men, by so gentle an instrument as the butt of a musket!

She hadn’t hit her head very hard. It was only a love tap compared to some of the bone-crushing smashes I’d seen delivered against those beams.

The car in Figure 2.7 has just been involved in an accident. […] An insurance adjuster must now decide whether this was a mere love tap or something that requires authorizing thousands of dollars for a new fender.

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• lovetaps
• love tap
• love-tap

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