off tap adj.2
(Aus.)1. acting in an unacceptable manner; thus condemned to death.
![[Aus]](/static/img/flags/aus.png "Australia") | Doing Time 193: off tap: a person who is ‘off tap’ is a dead man. This is used also in a threatening sense by saying that if a person doesn’t comply he’ll be ‘off tap’. | |
| Aus. Prison Sl. Gloss. 🌐 Off tap. 1. Under threat of death. Thus a person who is ‘off tap’ is marked to be killed. | |
| Neddy (1998) 142: Charlie has taken this bloke’s wife hostage over a dope deal. [...] If he hurts her in any way, then he is off tap. | |
| Chopper 4 215: If your number comes up you are off tap and that is that. Dead as a bloody mackerel. |
2. eccentric, mad.
| Aus. Prison Sl. Gloss. 🌐 Off tap. 2. Crazy. |