To (lightly) touch (a finger, foot, or other body part) on a surface, often repeatedly.
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You can pay by tapping your card.
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He was so nervous he began to tap his fingers on the table.
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The bystanders began now to loook at each other, nod, wink significantly, and tap their fingers against their foreheads.
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1819 June 23, Geoffrey Crayon [pseudonym; Washington Irving], “Rip Van Winkle”, in The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent., number I, New York, N.Y.: […] C[ornelius] S. Van Winkle, […], →OCLC, page 87:
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At this upon the sward / She tapt her tiny silken-sandal'd foot: / 'That's your light way; but I would make it death / For any male thing but to peep at us.'
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1847, Alfred Tennyson, “Prologue”, in The Princess: A Medley, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 8:
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The attorney had the statement of title in one hand, and leaning back in his chair, read it demurely in silence, with the other tapping the seal end of his gold pencil-case between his lips.
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1864, J[oseph] Sheridan Le Fanu, “Deep and Shallow”, in Wylder’s Hand. […], New York, N.Y.: Carleton, […], published 1865, →OCLC, page 262: