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 On online games, cheating subverts the rules or mechanics of the games to gain an unfair advantage over other players, generally with the use of third-party software. What constitutes cheating is dependent on the game in question, its rules, ...

* TapTap, video game distribution platform

Music and dancing

* Spinal Tap (band), a parody band *

Tap dance Tap dance (or tap) is a form of dance that uses the sounds of tap shoes striking the floor as a form of percussion; it is often accompanied by music. Tap dancing can also be performed with no musical accompaniment; the sound of the taps is its ow ...

, a type of dance using the sounds of tap shoes striking the floor *

Tapping Tapping is a playing technique that can be used on any stringed instrument, but which is most commonly used on guitar. The technique involves a string being fretted and set into vibration as part of a single motion. This is in contrast to stand ...

, 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 ''The American Prospect'' is a daily online and bimonthly print American political and public policy magazine dedicated to American modern liberalism and Progressivism in the United States, progressivism. Based in Washington, D.C., ''The America ...

'', a liberal policy magazine based in Washington, D.C. * ''TAP'', a

Youth International Party The Youth International Party (YIP), whose members were commonly called Yippies, was an American youth-oriented radical and countercultural revolutionary offshoot of the free speech and anti-war movements of the late 1960s. It was founded on D ...

magazine * "TAP" (novelette), by Greg Egan, 1995

Businesses and organisations

TAP Air Portugal TAP Air Portugal is the flag carrier of Portugal, headquartered at Lisbon Airport which also serves as its airline hub, hub. TAP – Transportes Aéreos Portugueses – has been a member of the Star Alliance since 2005 and operates on average 2, ...

, Portugal's flag carrier airline *

TAP Digital Media Ventures Corporation TAP Digital Media Ventures Corporation (TAP DMV) is a Philippine Mass media, media and entertainment company which oversees the operations of its 24-hour linear television channels and a digital media, digital over-the-top media service. It is f ...

, a Philippine media and entertainment company * TAP Pharmaceuticals, a joint venture * The Atlantic Paranormal Society (TAPS), an organization that investigates reported paranormal activity *

Secret Polish Army Secret Polish Army (, ) was a Polish resistance movement founded in November 1939 in German-occupied Poland, which was active in the voivodeships of Warsaw, Podlasie, Kielce and Lublin. Founders were: * Lieutenant Colonel Jan Henryk Włodarkie ...

, ''Tajna Armia Polska'', a Polish resistance movement in World War II *

Molson Coors Brewing Company Molson Coors Beverage Company is a Canadian-American multinational drink and brewing company headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. Molson Coors was formed in 2005 through the merger of Molson of Canada, and Coors of the United States. In 2016, ...

, NYSE symbol TAP *

Tunis Afrique Presse Tunis Afrique Presse (TAP) () is a Tunisian news agency. History and profile The agency, based in Tunis, was founded on 1 January 1961. With a corps of 300 agents, including photographers, researchers and 220 journalists, and a network of corres ...

, a Tunisian news agency * TAP Boyz (The Arabian Posse), a Chicago street gang * Tasmanians Against the Pulpmill, a group opposing the Bell Bay Pulp Mill * TAPS Division, Informatics General, an American computer software company * Trafficking and Prostitution Services (TAPS), an organisation for sexual trafficking victims *

Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors (TAPS) is an American nonprofit organization that provides care and support to families and friends of members of the U.S. armed forces who died while serving. TAPS was founded in 1994 by Bonnie Carroll. T ...

(TAPS), a U.S. non-profit organization

Medicine

Conditions: * Twin anemia-polycythemia sequence Procedures involving fluid removal through a needle: * Lumbar puncture, also known as a ''spinal tap'' *

Paracentesis Paracentesis (from Ancient Greek, Greek κεντάω, "to pierce") is a form of body fluid sampling procedure, generally referring to peritoneocentesis (also called laparocentesis or abdominal paracentesis) in which the peritoneal cavity is punct ...

, also known as an ''abdominal tap'' *

Thoracentesis Thoracentesis , also known as thoracocentesis (), pleural tap, needle thoracostomy, or needle decompression (often used term), is an invasive medical procedure to remove fluid or air from the pleural space for diagnostic or therapeutic purposes. ...

/ 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 Tapa is a town in Tapa Parish, Lääne-Viru County, Estonia, located at the junction of the country's Tallinn–Narva (west–east) and Tallinn–Tartu– Valga (north–south) railway lines. Tapa has the Estonian Defense Forces nearby Keskpo ...

Science and technology

Engineering

Tap (valve) A tap (also spigot or faucet: see usage variations) is a valve controlling the release of a fluid. Nomenclature United Kingdom * Tap is used in the United Kingdom and most of the Commonwealth for any everyday type of valve, particularly t ...

, a device for controlling the release of a liquid or gas, e.g. a water faucet ** Beer tap *

Tap (transformer) In electrical engineering, a transformer is a passive component that transfers electrical energy from one electrical circuit to another circuit, or multiple Electrical network, circuits. A varying current in any coil of the transformer produces ...

, an intermediate point on the winding of an electrical transformer *

Tap and die In the context of threading, taps and dies are the two classes of tools used to create screw threads. Many are cutting tools; others are forming tools. A tap is used to cut or form the female portion of the mating pair (e.g. a nut). A die is us ...

, tools to create screw threads

Computing and communications

* Tap (signal processing), a delayed impulse response *

Network tap A network tap is a system that monitors events on a local network. A tap is typically a dedicated hardware device, which provides a way to access the data flowing across a computer network. The network tap has (at least) three ports: an ''A port ...

(terminal access point), a system that monitors events on a local network * Telephone tap, a device that monitors phone conversations *

Vampire tap A vampire is a mythical creature that subsists by feeding on the Vitalism, vital essence (generally in the form of blood) of the living. In European folklore, vampires are undead, undead humanoid creatures that often visited loved ones and c ...

, 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 The Test Anything Protocol (TAP) is a protocol for communicating between test logic, called a TAP producer, and a test harness in a language-agnostic way. Originally developed for unit testing of the Perl interpreter in 1987, producers and par ...

, a communication protocol *

Topfield Application Program A Topfield Application Program (TAP) is a software application which extends the standard functionality of the Topfield products designed for digital TV. Examples of TAPs are electronic programme guides, digital photo viewers and MP3 players. An ...

, a software application for digital TV * Tap, a

pointing device gesture In computing, a pointing device gesture or mouse gesture (or simply gesture) is a way of combining pointing device or finger movements and Point-and-click, clicks that the software recognizes as a specific Event (computing), computer event and re ...

* Test access port in JTAG standard *

Amazon Tap Amazon Echo, often shortened to Echo, is a brand of smart speakers developed by Amazon. Echo devices connect to the voice-controlled intelligent personal assistant service. ''Alexa'', which responds to a wake term (''Alexa'', and others) when sp ...

, a portable version of the Amazon Echo voice assistant *

TUN/TAP In computer networking, TUN and TAP are kernel virtual network devices. Being network devices supported entirely in software, they differ from ordinary network devices which are backed by physical network adapters. The Universal TUN/TAP Driv ...

, 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 Roaming is a wireless Wireless communication (or just wireless, when the context allows) is the transfer of information (''telecommunication'') between two or more points without the use of an electrical conductor, optical fiber or oth ...

* Task-based asynchronous pattern, Microsoft's term for the Async/await pattern in C#

Science

Tap consonant In phonetics, a flap or tap is a type of consonantal sound, which is produced with a single contraction of the muscles so that one articulator (such as the tongue) is thrown against another. Contrast with stops and trills The main difference be ...

, 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 DNA methylation is a biological process by which methyl groups are added to the DNA molecule. Methylation can change the activity of a DNA segment without changing the sequence. When located in a gene promoter (genetics), promoter, DNA methylati ...

profiling * Tandem affinity purification (TAP), a technique for studying protein interactions *

Timor–Alor–Pantar languages The Timor–Alor–Pantar (TAP) languages are a language family, family of languages spoken in Timor, Kisar, and the Alor archipelago in Southern Indonesia. It is the westernmost Papuan languages, Papuan language family that survives (see Tambor ...

Transporter associated with antigen processing Transporter associated with antigen processing (TAP) protein complex belongs to the ATP-binding-cassette transporter family. It delivers cytosolic peptides into the endoplasmic reticulum (ER), where they bind to nascent MHC class I molecules. T ...

(TAP), a protein complex * Twin anemia-polycythemia sequence (TAPS), a form of chronic inter-twin transfusion

Transportation

Trans Adriatic Pipeline The Trans Adriatic Pipeline (TAP; ; ; ) is a natural gas pipeline operational since 2020, running from Greece through Albania and the Adriatic Sea to Italy. It is the final section of the Southern Gas Corridor originating in Azerbaijan. , capaci ...

(TAP), a gas pipeline via Greece, Albania and Italy *

Trans-Alaska Pipeline System The Trans-Alaska Pipeline System (TAPS) is an oil transportation system spanning Alaska, including the trans-Alaska crude-oil pipeline, 12 pump stations, several hundred miles of feeder pipelines, and the Valdez Marine Terminal. TAPS is one o ...

(TAPS), a petroleum pipeline across Alaska, United States * Transit Access Pass (TAP), 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 Tai Po Market (; : ) is an MTR station on the in the New Territories, Hong Kong. Located between Flagstaff Hill and Wan Tau Tong Estate in Tai Po, and adjacent to the eponymous market town, the station has three tracks and four platform ...

, Hong Kong, MTR station code TAP * Taplow railway station, Buckinghamshire, England, National Rail station code TAP

Other uses

Tap code The ''tap code'', sometimes called the knock code, is a way to encode text messages on a letter-by-letter basis in a very simple way. The message is transmitted using a series of tap sounds, hence its name. The tap code has been commonly used by ...

, a simple way to encode text messages on a letter-by-letter basis * Tap, a method of

contactless payment Contactless payment systems are credit cards and debit cards, key fobs, smart cards, or other devices, including smartphones and other mobile devices, that use radio-frequency identification (RFID) or near-field communication (NFC) for making sec ...

* Tarapur Atomic Power Station (TAPS), Tarapur, Palghar, India * Three Apogee orbit (TAP) *

(TAP), a gas pipeline *

(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