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Definition of tapped out

tapped out

  • without money.
    Person 1: Will you loan me five dollars?

    Person 2: Sorry man, I'm tapped out.

    Last edited on Aug 25 2013. Submitted by brandon e. from WV, USA on Aug 15 1998.

  • No more money.

    Last edited on Mar 09 2000. Submitted by Brian S. from Austin, TX, USA on Mar 09 2000.

  • to have no more of something.
    The mother could not breast-feed her baby: she was tapped out.

    Last edited on May 13 2013. Submitted by Walter Rader (Editor) from Sacramento, CA, USA on Oct 03 2009.

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Other terms relating to 'poor, poor person, homeless person':

Definitions include: in an irreparably bad situation; "out of luck"; "screwed".
Definitions include: very broke.
Definitions include: Broke or without money.
Definitions include: useless.
Definitions include: See chav.
Definitions include: without money; "broke".
Definitions include: a person who is of the red-neck, trailer trash, low morals variety.
Definitions include: having been kicked out of one's residence.
Definitions include: From the stereotype that poor people (especially in the Midwestern United States) live in trailer-homes.
Definitions include: a homeless woman.
Definitions include: See also strap.
Definitions include: to be sad.
Definitions include: an instance of tightening (one's) belt.
Definitions include: to reduce expenses.
Definitions include: broke, out of money.

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Definitions include: fatigued after amphetamine use.
Definitions include: very; really; extremely.
Definitions include: to ask a person on a date.
Definitions include: in an irreparably bad situation; "out of luck"; "screwed".
Definitions include: to defecate; "poop".
Definitions include: to get someone out of jail by posting bail.
Definitions include: to tell on someone; "snitch".
Definitions include: a session of getting baked (i.e. high from marijuana.)
Definitions include: to leave.
Definitions include: See also balls to the wall.
Definitions include: to hit or cause bodily injury.
Definitions include: to study to excess or to be over-competitive in school-work.
Definitions include: to beat severely.
Definitions include: to beat severely.

Other terms relating to 'tap':

Definitions include: a gentle nudge to an automobile, performed by another automobile.
Definitions include: to slap a person's "sack" (testicles).
Definitions include: straight from the source of said thing.
Definitions include: to have sex with.
Definitions include: underage kids hang around a convenience store to get a "Harry" to go and buy them some beer. a "Harry" is anyone who will do it.
Definitions include: to urinate.
Definitions include: to have sex.
Definitions include: to evade a question.
Definitions include: do something suicidal, also to do something incredibly stupid
Definitions include: someone is injured or hurt specifically, or more generally a term that means that someone is in bad shape or facing tough circumstances for whatever reason.
Definitions include: shortened form of tapped out.
Definitions include: to call something in advance; show possession.
Definitions include: to hook up with or do other sexual actions with someone.
Definitions include: to have sex with the person attached to said ass.

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