tippy-tap

名词 n. 动词 v.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A step that makes a clicking sound.
    — […] she trots through the halls of her mansion jiggling in her frilly dresses and making tippy-taps with her high heels.
  2. A light and rapid tap
    — Why do TV news anchors always do that thing at the end of the show when they gather their papers in a neat pile, stand them on end and give them a little double tippy-tap?
  3. A gourd or small jerry can filled with water and attached to a piece of wood at ground level, such that stepping on the wood tips the gourd or can to release a stream of water through a small hole.
    — Based in San Luis Obispo, Lifewater focuses all its efforts on the countries of Ethiopia, Uganda and Cambodia, teaching people how to make water safer by building latrines and tippy-taps, a simple gadget used to wash hands with running water.
动词 v.
  1. To tap dance, or imitate tap dancing.
    — But to watch Errico tippy-tap into the same scenes that Kelly used to enter in a grandly aristocratic and delicious sweep; to hear Errico and co-star Randy Graff chirp drollery that Hepburn, Kelly and Celeste Holm used to fire off like Stinger missiles (jus hearing Hepburn say “Oh, goody” made a wonderful theatrical evening for me); and to listen to the nice Daniel McDonald (as C.K. Dexter Haven) and Errico sing “True Love” when that unconquerable love ballad had its numbers retired half a century ago by Crosby and Kelly – is to cry.
  2. To tap lightly.
    — I have always envied the starch in their shirts and the clean fingers they use to tippy-tap their computers and develop weird schematics while their fake Rolex wristwatches glitter.

词形变化

tippy-taps plural tippy tap alternative tippy-taps present,singular,third-person tippy-tapping participle,present tippy-tapped participle,past tippy-tapped past tippy tap alternative

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