get tapped up

get tapped up
vb
British
to succeed in meeting/seducing a part-ner. The phrase is used in working-class speech, particularly in the northeast of England.
► 'Couldn t even get tapped up last night.' (Away The Lads, BBC 2 TV documentary, February 1993)

Contemporary slang . 2014.

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