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Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
verb
To use voluntary muscle tremors to rapidly press and depress a button.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive
Topics: video-games
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
History
From hyper- + tap. First attested in 2010, but in common usage only as of 2018. Coined by adult Tetris players to describe a technique used by Thor Aackerlund in a 1990 tournament.
