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1. A tavern keeper who taps kegs or casks
   - tapster
    
2. A person who strikes a surface lightly and usually repeatedly
   "finger tappers irritated her"
    
3. A worker who uses a tap to cut screw threads
    
4. Someone who wiretaps a telephone or telegraph wire
   - wiretapper, phone tapper
    
5. A dancer who sounds out rhythms by using metal taps on the toes and heels of the shoes
   - tap dancer

Derived forms: tappers

Type of: dancer, eavesdropper, individual, mortal, person, professional dancer, publican [Brit], somebody, someone, soul, tavern keeper [Brit, archaic], terpsichorean, worker

Encyclopedia: Tapper, Thomas