abzapfen

See also: Abzapfen

German

Etymology

16th century[1], ab- +‎ zapfen.

Pronunciation
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Verb

abzapfen (weak, third-person singular present zapft ab, past tense zapfte ab, past participle abgezapft, auxiliary haben)

  1. (transitive) of a liquid, to draw off, to tap
  2. (transitive, colloquial, humorous) of blood, to draw
    Blut abzapfen ― to draw blood (literally, “to tap blood”)
  3. (transitive, by extension, slang, derogatory) of something other than a liquid, to siphon off (to take for oneself through morally or legally questionable means)
  4. (transitive, rare) to empty slowly by tapping continually

Conjugation

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Derived terms

References
  1. Wolfgang Pfeifer, editor (1993), “abzapfen”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Deutschen (in German), 2nd edition, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN

Further reading
  • “abzapfen” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
  • “abzapfen” in Duden online
  • “abzapfen” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
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