Lovetap
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Lovetap is a noun meaning A light punch or other rough tap, performed in a friendly or affectionate manner.
Meaning
A light punch or other rough tap, performed in a friendly or affectionate manner.
More Meanings
- (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.
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.
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!
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.
Word Forms
- lovetaps
- love tap
- love-tap
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include love-tap, boop, lappy, luvvy, clap, toe-tapper.
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