1
: tip-in
2
: a very short easy putt in golf

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Fortunately for City, Eli Junior Kroupi strayed two yards offside while awaiting a simple tap-in. Jordan Campbell, New York Times, 3 Nov. 2025 Scratched on Sunday in Utah, Mittelstadt, who would assist on Geekie’s late equalizer, made a cute redirect to Pavel Zacha for a tap-in at 2:46. Steve Conroy, Boston Herald, 22 Oct. 2025 Defensively sound for the first 15 minutes, the Wild inexplicably got loose late in the first, and ended up in a deficit when Strome capped off a 2-on-1 rush with a tap-in after a cross-ice pass from Ovechkin. Jess Myers, Twin Cities, 18 Oct. 2025 MacKinnon set up Lehkonen for a tap-in at the edge of the crease on the first shift of the third period. Corey Masisak, Denver Post, 12 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for tap-in

Word History

First Known Use

1948, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Time Traveler
The first known use of tap-in was in 1948

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“Tap-in.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tap-in. Accessed 11 Nov. 2025.

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