doubletap

English

Verb

doubletap (third-person singular simple present doubletaps, present participle doubletapping, simple past and past participle doubletapped)

1. Alternative form of double tap (“to shoot twice”).
   • 2001 November 15, Chaplain-X, “Overheard on the news”, in rec.martial-arts‎^[1] (Usenet):

     Have you ever been shot?
     I haven't, but I did shoot someone once and they weren't capable of rushing
     anything after that, and it wasn't even a fatal wound. If I doubletapped
     your chest and one to your head you wouldn't be rushing forward very far.

   • 2015 March 24, J Bartell, Ginger Marin, The 231 Club: My Ten Year Journey From Therapist to CIA Courier and Sanctioned Kills - A True Story‎^[2], Bijou Entertainment, →ISBN, →OCLC:

     I saw them before they saw me so I doubletapped them both and they went down fast and limp. I was listening to the sounds of the guns firing and decided to move in the direction where I heard only one or two shots being fired at a time.

2. Alternative form of double tap (“to click twice on a touchscreen”).
   • 2016 July 6, Bernd Fröhlich, “User has "incredible" trouble switching to Android from iOS”, in misc.phone.mobile.iphone‎^[3] (Usenet):

     My Jolla on the other hand does not have a home button. I don“t^[sic] miss it.
     You simply doubletap on the screen to wake it up. I like it.