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doubletap (third-person singular simple present doubletaps, present participle doubletapping, simple past and past participle doubletapped)
- Alternative form of double tap (“to shoot twice”).
2001 November 15, Chaplain-X, “Overheard on the news”, in rec.martial-arts (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, 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.
- 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 (Usenet):My Jolla on the other hand does not have a home button. I don“t miss it.
You simply doubletap on the screen to wake it up. I like it.