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taps (taps)

noun

☆ a bugle call to put out lights in retiring for the night, as in an army camp: also sounded at a military funeral

Etymology: < tap, because orig. a drum signal

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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