lovetap
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A strike or collision with relatively little force, or causing relatively little damage.
Example Sentences
- "Why am I in trouble for hitting him? It was just a lovetap! See, he's not hurt."
- "It was out of all precedent for us to do anything of that kind, for often on our honeymoon, when inspired to give him a love-tap or a fervent kiss, my husband would say: “Oh, spare me that, if there is anything more disgusting in a wife than such constant demonstrations let me know it.”"
- "Surely you forget the manner in which my hospitality has already been requited[…] with a love-tap received over the shoulders of one of my men, by so gentle an instrument as the butt of a musket!"
- "She hadn’t hit her head very hard. It was only a love tap compared to some of the bone-crushing smashes I’d seen delivered against those beams."
- "The car in Figure 2.7 has just been involved in an accident. […] An insurance adjuster must now decide whether this was a mere love tap or something that requires authorizing thousands of dollars for a new fender."