stop-tap
English
editEtymology
editNoun
edit- A stopcock.
- (Wales) Last orders.
- 1998, Peter Jackson, Lions of Wales, page 139:
- It was almost stop-tap time when my name came up, and that was the excuse my friends had been waiting for to shower me with beer.
- 2010, Gwen Davies, ‘The Professionals’, translated by William Owen Roberts, Best European Fiction 2011:
- But there we were together on the pavement after stop tap, him cadging a light off me.