"tap the admiral" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "John Camden Hotten's Slang Dictionary (1873) mentions a tale of this having been done with the rum cask in which Lord Nelson's body was brought to England.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "taps the admiral",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "tapping the admiral",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "tapped the admiral",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "tapped the admiral",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "tap the admiral (third-person singular simple present taps the admiral, present participle tapping the admiral, simple past and past participle tapped the admiral)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with language name categories using raw markup",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with language name categories using raw markup",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English predicates",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
          "parents": [
            "Terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Nautical",
          "orig": "en:Nautical",
          "parents": [
            "Transport",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To steal some liquor from a cask that is in storage or transit."
      ],
      "id": "en-tap_the_admiral-en-verb-JoVknyTI",
      "links": [
        [
          "nautical",
          "nautical"
        ],
        [
          "liquor",
          "liquor"
        ],
        [
          "cask",
          "cask"
        ],
        [
          "storage",
          "storage"
        ],
        [
          "transit",
          "transit"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(nautical, slang) To steal some liquor from a cask that is in storage or transit."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "slang"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "nautical",
        "transport"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "tap the admiral"
}

{
  "etymology_text": "John Camden Hotten's Slang Dictionary (1873) mentions a tale of this having been done with the rum cask in which Lord Nelson's body was brought to England.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "taps the admiral",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "tapping the admiral",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "tapped the admiral",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "tapped the admiral",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "tap the admiral (third-person singular simple present taps the admiral, present participle tapping the admiral, simple past and past participle tapped the admiral)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English entries with language name categories using raw markup",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English predicates",
        "English slang",
        "English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
        "English verbs",
        "en:Nautical"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To steal some liquor from a cask that is in storage or transit."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "nautical",
          "nautical"
        ],
        [
          "liquor",
          "liquor"
        ],
        [
          "cask",
          "cask"
        ],
        [
          "storage",
          "storage"
        ],
        [
          "transit",
          "transit"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(nautical, slang) To steal some liquor from a cask that is in storage or transit."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "slang"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "nautical",
        "transport"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "tap the admiral"
}