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Pushbutton and Tapper

noun

  • A tavern keeper who taps kegs or casks.
  • A person who strikes a surface lightly and usually repeatedly.
    • usage: "finger tappers irritated her"
  • A worker who uses a tap to cut screw threads.
  • Someone who wiretaps a telephone or telegraph wire.
  • A dancer who sounds out rhythms by using metal taps on the toes and heels of the shoes.
(n.) The lesser spotted woodpecker (Dendrocopus minor); -- called also tapperer, tabberer, little wood pie, barred woodpecker, wood tapper, hickwall, and pump borer.