Usually means: Gently tapping someone or something.
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We found 16 dictionaries that define the word patting:

General (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. patting: Merriam-Webster
  2. patting: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. patting: Collins English Dictionary
  4. patting: Vocabulary.com
  5. Patting, patting: Wordnik
  6. patting: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. patting: Wiktionary
  8. Patting, patting: Dictionary.com
  9. patting: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  10. Patting: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. Patting: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  12. patting: FreeDictionary.org
  13. patting: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. patting: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. patting: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. patting: Idioms

(Note: See pat as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (patting)

noun:  The act by which something is patted.

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