pitapat

adverb

1. with a quick succession of beats or taps: Her heart beat pitapat with excitement.

noun

2. the movement or the sound of something going pitapat: the pitapat of hail on a roof.

verb (used without object), pit·a·pat·ted, pit·a·pat·ting.

3. to go pitapat.

adverb

1. with quick light taps or beats

verb -pats, -patting or -patted

2. (intr) to make quick light taps or beats

noun

3. such taps or beats