toe-tapper

Meaning

Noun

• A piece of music with a prominent beat, to which one feels compelled to tap their toes.
• A joke which is found to be pleasingly humorous.
• A homosexual who is closeted regarding sexual orientation, especially one who solicits gay sex.

Origin

• From toe + tapper.
• Sense 2 (“joke”) derives from the practice of tapping one’s toes to indicate pleasure; compare toe-tappingly. Sense 3 (“closeted homosexual, especially one who solicits gay sex”) derives from the 2007 Larry Craig scandal in which then-Senator Larry Craig (born 1945) of Idaho, USA, was arrested after tapping his right foot in a men’s restroom, an action seen as covert solicitation of sex.