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Clap   /klæp/   Listen
noun
Clap  n.  
1.
A loud noise made by sudden collision; a bang. "Give the door such a clap, as you go out, as will shake the whole room."
2.
A burst of sound; a sudden explosion. "Horrible claps of thunder."
3.
A single, sudden act or motion; a stroke; a blow. "What, fifty of my followers at a clap!"
4.
A striking of hands to express approbation. "Unextrected claps or hisses."
5.
Noisy talk; chatter. (Obs.)
6.
(Falconry) The nether part of the beak of a hawk.
Clap dish. See Clack dish, under Clack, n.
Clap net, a net for taking birds, made to close or clap together.


Clap  n.  Gonorrhea.


verb
Clap  v. t.  (past & past part. clapped; pres. part. clapping)  
1.
To strike; to slap; to strike, or strike together, with a quick motion, so, as to make a sharp noise; as, to clap one's hands; a clapping of wings. "Then like a bird it sits and sings, And whets and claps its silver wings."
2.
To thrust, drive, put, or close, in a hasty or abrupt manner; often followed by to, into, on, or upon. "He had just time to get in and clap to the door." "Clap an extinguisher upon your irony."
3.
To manifest approbation of, by striking the hands together; to applaud; as, to clap a performance.
To clap hands.
(a)
To pledge faith by joining hands. (Obs.)
(b)
To express contempt or derision. (Obs.)
To clap hold of, to seize roughly or quickly.
To clap up.
(a)
To imprison hastily or without due formality.
(b)
To make or contrive hastily. (Obs.) "Was ever match clapped up so suddenly?"


Clap  v. i.  
1.
To knock, as at a door. (Obs.)
2.
To strike the hands together in applause. "Their ladies bid them clap."
3.
To come together suddenly with noise. "The doors around me clapped."
4.
To enter with alacrity and briskness; with to or into. (Obs.) "Shall we clap into it roundly, without... saying we are hoarse?"
5.
To talk noisily; to chatter loudly. (Obs.)





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"Clap" Quotes from Famous Books



... Watkinson puts in a superior way the clap-trap of Christian Evidence lecturers. If man is purely material, and the law of causation is universal, where, he asks, "is the place for virtue, for praise, for blame?" Has Mr. Watkinson never read the answer to these ...
— Flowers of Freethought - (Second Series) • George W. Foote
... lad; never be more cheery for another than for yourself. But a fagged body fags the soul. To hammock, to hammock! while I go on deck to clap on more sail to ...
— Israel Potter • Herman Melville
... caliph was to me like a clap of thunder. "Commander of the faithful," I replied, "I am ready to do whatever your majesty shall think fit to command; but I beseech you most humbly to consider what I have undergone. I have also made a vow never to go out of Bagdad." ...
— The Arabian Nights Entertainments vol. 1 • Anon.
... like a thunder-clap from out the clear, One minute they were circus beasts, some grand, Some ugly, some amusing, and some queer: Rival attractions to the hobo band, The flying ...
— Gloucester Moors and Other Poems • William Vaughn Moody
... cut from its side, and poison put into its heart, poor Nation! Or again, you may buy, not of the Third Estate in such ways, but of the Fourth, or of the Fourth and Third together, in other still more felonious and deadly, though refined ways. By doing clap-traps, namely; letting off Parliamentary blue-lights, to awaken the Sleeping Swineries, and charm them into diapason for you,—what a music! Or, without clap-trap or previous felony of your own, you may feloniously, in the pinch of things, make truce with the evident Demagogos, ...
— History of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Vol. XII. (of XXI.) • Thomas Carlyle


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