taper

taper
I.
v. trans.
1. To 'tap', to 'touch' someone for a sub, to cadge money off someone.
2. Taper une lettre: To 'tap out', to type a letter.
3. Taper des talbins: To print counterfeit money.
4. Taper une belote: To have a game of belote. (The expression is true to reality; this game of cards full of French histrionics gives a deck of cards a tough time.)
II.
v. intrans.
1. Taper sur: To 'pitch into', to 'lam into', to go for someone with fists flying.
2. Taper sur les nerfs (also: sur le système) à quelqu'un: To 'get on someone's wick', to be a real nuisance to someone.
3. Taper dans l'œil à quelqu'un:
  a To make an impression on someone.
  b To 'click' with someone of the opposite sex.
4. Taper aux fafs (pol.): To ask for I.D. papers, to request identification documents.
5. Ça tape! It's fair blazing down! We've got some super sunshine!
6. Taper le 180 km./h. (of car): To top 100 m.p.h. easily.
7. Taper de: To 'pong', to stink, to smell foul. Il tape des panards que c'en est affreux! His feet smell something rotten!
III.
v. pronom.
1. Se taper quelque chose:
  a To have to do something unpleasant. C'est encore moi qui dois me taper la vaisselle! I can see it'll be muggins who does the washing-up again!
  b To treat oneself to something nice. On s'est tapé un gueuleton tout ce qu'il y a de meumeu! We had ourselves a super nosh! Je me taperais bien cette nana! I wouldn't mind laying that chick!
2. Se taper de quelque chose:
  a Not to 'give a fuck', not to 'care a rap' about something. Ses histoires de nanas, je m'en tape royalement! I don't give a fig about his goings-on with women!
  b To have to do without something.
3. Se taper le cul par terre: To 'laugh oneself silly', to be overcome by mirth.
4. Se taper la colonne: To 'pull one's wire', to 'wank', to masturbate.

Dictionary of Modern Colloquial French. 2013.

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  • Taper — Ta per, a. [Supposed to be from taper, n., in allusion to its form.] Regularly narrowed toward the point; becoming small toward one end; conical; pyramidical; as, taper fingers. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • taper — [tā′pər] n. [ME < OE tapur, prob. by dissimilation < L papyrus (see PAPER): from use of papyrus pith as wick] 1. a wax candle, esp. a long, slender one 2. a long wick coated with wax, used for lighting candles, lamps, etc. 3. any feeble… …   English World dictionary

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  • taper — / taper off [v] decrease to a point abate, bate, close, come to a point, die away, die out, diminish, drain, dwindle, fade, lessen, narrow, recede, reduce, rescind, subside, thin, thin out, wane, weaken, wind down; concepts 137,698,776 Ant. go up …   New thesaurus

  • taper — ► VERB 1) diminish or reduce in thickness towards one end. 2) (taper off) gradually lessen. ► NOUN ▪ a slender tapered candle, used for conveying a flame. ORIGIN Old English, formed, by alteration of p to t , from Latin papyrus papyrus plant ,… …   English terms dictionary

  • Taper — Ta per, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Tapered}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Tapering}.] To become gradually smaller toward one end; as, a sugar loaf tapers toward one end. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

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