Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. insane, crazy.

1930		(con. 1918) J. Hanley German Prisoner 29: ‘Are you tapped, or what [...] What the funkin’ hell are you thinkin’ of, you loony’.
c.1940–5		‘Myles na gCopaleen’ Best of Myles (1968) 226: In what non-downward condition of being tapped am I sometimes to be found? I am knocked up.
1984		(con. WW2) T. Jones Heart of Oak [ebook] The consensus in the mess was that I might be a bit tapped, but I was all right and good for sippers or a sub whenever anyone needed it and I could look after myself in a scrap.
1993		I. Welsh Trainspotting 104: Youre fuckin tapped Billy. Ye heard whit the wifey sais.
1997		Fraser & Meadows TwentyFourSeven [film script] (1998) 23: Darcy you’re tapped, mate.
2012		(con. 1980s) I. Welsh Skagboys 238: Sick Boy looks at the cunt like he’s farking tapped.
2021		Central Cee ‘Fraud’ 🎵 Bro got sent can, and he came hom? tapped.
2021		L. McInerney Rules of Revelation 261: [She] was definitly a bit tapped.

2. (UK black) exhausted, unfocused.

2018-20

T. Thorne (ed.) ‘Drill Slang Glossary’ at Forensic Linguistic Databank 🌐 Tapped- tired, off-guard, slow-witted.

3. (UK black) killed, shot.

2018-20

T. Thorne (ed.) ‘Drill Slang Glossary’ at Forensic Linguistic Databank 🌐 Tapped- killed, shot.