stop-tap

noun — 2 senses

stop-tap

noun

Etymology From stop + tap.

1

A stopcock.

2

Wales Last orders.

  • It was almost stop-tap time when my name came up, and that was the excuse my friends had been waiting for to shower me with beer.1998, Peter Jackson, Lions of Wales, page 139:
  • But there we were together on the pavement after stop tap, him cadging a light off me.2010, Gwen Davies, ‘The Professionals’, translated by William Owen Roberts, Best European Fiction 2011:

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