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

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Six birdies and a tap-in eagle on the par-4 14th highlighted a 7-under 64, his best score in 70 career major championship rounds. Brendan Quinn, New York Times, 21 May 2025 DeChambeau unfortunately hit the ball past the hole and had to settle for a tap-in bogey. Savannah Leigh Richardson, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 May 2025 With the score tied at 2 late in the first period, Reinhart looked to have a tap-in, but Andrei Vasilevskiy came out of nowhere with a right pad save to keep the game even. Josh Yohe, New York Times, 1 May 2025 The Kings struck early as Kuzmenko, a trade deadline acquisition by general manager Rob Blake, scored at 2:49 of the first on a tap-in at the net to cash in a Brett Kulak holding the stick penalty. Eric Stephens, New York Times, 22 Apr. 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 2 Jun. 2025.

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