off tap

Ostracized and made the target of revenge or punishment.

Prepositional phrase

  1. Ostracized and made the target of revenge or punishment.
    • If your number comes up you are off tap and that is that. Dead as a bloody mackerel, no questions asked. - 2012, Mark Brandon Read, Chopper Unchopped:
    • Patty said I was placed in isolation as some members of the aboriginal community had placed me in a category known back then as "OFF TAP" meaning I was to be hurt in some way, shape or form. This would later be...