Tap
Tap verb - To strike or cause to strike lightly and usually rhythmically.
Wish
Wish verb - To offer (something fake, useless, or inferior) as genuine, useful, or valuable.
How words are described
| good | good tap | good wish |
| special | special tap | special wish |
| free | free tap | free wish |
| single | single tap | single wish |
| Other adjectives: simple, small, little, slight, secret, new, last. | ||
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
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Larkin: "I just fething wish I'd gotten a bead on him sooner." Bottled Heroic Resolve: The Ghosts have plenty on tap.
Source: Literature / Gaunt's Ghosts - Occurs again at the end of Sharp when the girls are cursed by the Big Bad and once during The Movie when Pop's wish turns Doremi into a mouse; her tap is seen vanishing into light.
Source: Brought Down to Normal -
Powered by a Forsaken Child: The Spear Of Destiny was somehow able to retroactively tap into the Spectre's magical power in order to make Adolf Hitler's wish of destroying the universe a reality.
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