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vb. (present participle of tap out English)
Usage examples of "tapping out".
His fingers danced across the access control, tapping out the code for an emergency jettison.
Mistress Anan was death on anybody spitting on her floors, or tossing bones, or even tapping out a pipe.
He was tapping the pointed end gently into the palm of his hand, as if he were tapping out a tune that only he could hear.
A padd materialized in his hand, and he began tapping out notes, as if neither Milo nor the baby’.
I stood and watched her go, the white halo of her head bobbing in the darkness, her cane tapping out the way as she moved down the long and twisting path of her world of fantasy.
Knot ignored him, and began tapping out the code pattern that Mit and Hermine provided.
In half a second the switchblade was out of her pocket, the blade open and the point tapping out red dots on the underside of his chin.
He did this by bouncing in his seat and simultaneously tapping out an abbreviated foot-routine without bothering to uncross his legs.