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taps

 
/tæps/ pl n

Definition

a musical signal played at military funerals and in the evening to tell soldiers that lights are to go off: We heard the bugle playing taps.
(Definition of taps pl n from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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