Tap(s), TAP(S) or tapped may refer to:

Arts and entertainment

Film

  • Tap (film), a 1989 American dance drama film
  • Taps (film), a 1981 American drama film
  • Taps (2006 film), a short film
  • Tapped (film), a 2009 documentary

Gaming

  • Tap (gaming), a mechanic in Magic: The Gathering and other card games where a card is rotated
  • Tapping, creating an artificial lag, a method of cheating in online games
  • TapTap, video game distribution platform

Music and dancing

  • Tap dance, a type of dance using the sounds of tap shoes striking the floor
  • Tapping, a guitar playing technique
  • "Taps" (bugle call), a U.S. armed forces bugle call
  • Tap: Book of Angels Volume 20, a 2013 album by Pat Metheny composed by John Zorn
  • Tap (EP), a 2024 extended play by Taeyong

Publications

  • Tap!, a defunct magazine for owners of Apple's iOS devices
  • The American Prospect, a liberal policy magazine based in Washington, D.C.
  • TAP, a Youth International Party magazine
  • "TAP" (novelette), by Greg Egan, 1995

Businesses and organisations

  • The Atlantic Paranormal Society (TAPS), an organization that investigates reported paranormal activity
  • Molson Coors Brewing Company, NYSE symbol TAP
  • Secret Polish Army, Tajna Armia Polska, a Polish resistance movement in World War II
  • TAP Air Portugal, Portugal's flag carrier airline
  • TAP Digital Media Ventures Corporation, a Philippine media and entertainment company
  • TAP Pharmaceuticals, a joint venture
  • TAP Boyz (The Arabian Posse), a Chicago street gang
  • TAPS Division, Informatics General, an American computer software company
  • Tasmanians Against the Pulpmill, a group opposing the Bell Bay Pulp Mill
  • Tony Ayres Production, an Australian film production company belonging to Tony Ayres
  • Trafficking and Prostitution Services (TAPS), an organisation for sexual trafficking victims
  • Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors (TAPS), a U.S. non-profit organization
  • Tunis Afrique Presse, a Tunisian news agency

Medicine

Conditions:

  • Twin anemia-polycythemia sequence

Procedures involving fluid removal through a needle:

  • Lumbar puncture, also known as a spinal tap
  • Paracentesis, also known as an abdominal tap
  • Thoracentesis / thoracocentesis, also known as a pleural tap

People

  • Tap Canutt (1932–2014), American stunt performer and actor
  • Tap Jones (1914–2007), British Royal Air Force air marshal
  • Taps Mugadza (born 1988), Zimbabwean singer known by the mononym Taps
  • Taps Miller (1915–?), American entertainer

Places

  • Tap, Azerbaijan
  • Táp, Hungary
  • Taps, the German name of Tapa, Estonia

Science and technology

Engineering

  • Tap (valve), a device for controlling the release of a liquid or gas, e.g. a water faucet
  • Beer tap
  • Tap (transformer), an intermediate point on the winding of an electrical transformer
  • Tap and die, tools to create screw threads

Computing and communications

  • Tap (signal processing), a delayed impulse response
  • Network tap (terminal access point), a system that monitors events on a local network
  • Telephone tap, a device that monitors phone conversations
  • Vampire tap, a method for attaching computer nodes to a network cable
  • Telelocator Alphanumeric Protocol, a protocol for sending messages to a cellular or pager service
  • Test Anything Protocol, a communication protocol
  • Topfield Application Program, a software application for digital TV
  • Tap, a pointing device gesture
  • Test access port in JTAG standard
  • Amazon Tap, a portable version of the Amazon Echo voice assistant
  • TUN/TAP, virtual network kernel interfaces
  • .TAP files, tape images from Commodore 8-bit computers; see Commodore 64 disk / tape emulation
  • Transferred Account Procedure data files, see Roaming
  • Task-based asynchronous pattern, Microsoft's term for the Async/await pattern in C#

Science

  • Tap consonant, a type of phonetic sound
  • TAPS (buffer), a chemical compound commonly used to make buffer solutions
  • TET-assisted pyridine borane sequencing (TAPS), laboratory technique for DNA methylation profiling
  • Tandem affinity purification (TAP), a technique for studying protein interactions
  • Timor–Alor–Pantar languages
  • Transporter associated with antigen processing (TAP), a protein complex
  • 2,4,6-triaminopyrimidine (TAP), a candidate primordial genetic base under the RNA world hypothesis
  • Twin anemia-polycythemia sequence (TAPS), a form of chronic inter-twin transfusion

Transportation

  • Trans Adriatic Pipeline (TAP), a gas pipeline via Greece, Albania and Italy
  • Trans-Alaska Pipeline System (TAPS), a petroleum pipeline across Alaska, United States
  • TAP card, an electronic ticketing payment method in Los Angeles County, California, United States
  • Tapachula International Airport, Chiapas, Mexico, IATA airport code TAP
  • Tai Po Market station, Hong Kong, MTR station code TAP
  • Taplow railway station, Buckinghamshire, England, National Rail station code TAP

Other uses

  • Tap code, a simple way to encode text messages on a letter-by-letter basis
  • Tap, a method of contactless payment
  • Tarapur Atomic Power Station (TAPS), Tarapur, Palghar, India
  • Three Apogee orbit (TAP)
  • Trans Adriatic Pipeline (TAP), a gas pipeline
  • Trans-Alaska Pipeline System (TAPS), a crude-oil pipeline
  • Tuition Assistance Program, New York State, U.S.
  • Tap, or Tab (cuneiform), a cuneiform sign
  • Tap room, in a British bar
  • Taps (bugle call)

See also

  • Tapping (disambiguation)
  • Tap out (disambiguation)
  • Tap tap (disambiguation)
  • Tapa (disambiguation)