Sekirov Dictionary

clap

/klæp/

verb 10
noun 8
forms 6
phrases 8

verb10

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To strike the palms of the hands together, creating a sharp sound.
- The children began to clap in time with the music.
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To applaud.
- The audience loudly clapped the actress, who responded with a deep curtsey.
- It isn’t the singers they are clapping; it's the composer.
•
To set or put, usually in haste.
- The sheriff clapped him in jail.
- She was the prettiest thing I'd ever clapped eyes on.
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To slap with the hand in a jovial manner.
- He would often clap his teammates on the back for encouragement.
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To bring two surfaces together forcefully, creating a sharp sound.
- He clapped the empty glass down on the table.
- She clapped the book shut.
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To create or assemble (something) hastily (usually followed by up or together).
- We should clap together a shelter before nightfall.
- The rival factions clapped up a truce.
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(slang) To defeat.
- He started a fight but then got clapped immediately.
(slang) To have sex, fornicate, copulate.
(slang) To shoot (somebody) with a gun.
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(no longer used) To slam (a door or window); formerly often construed with to.
- Hostesse clap to the doores. — 1597

noun8

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The act of striking the palms of the hands, or any two surfaces, together.
- He summoned the waiter with a clap.
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The explosive sound of thunder.
- With each clap of thunder echoing from one high building to another the noise was terrific. — 1953
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Any loud, sudden, explosive sound made by striking hard surfaces together, or resembling such a sound.
- Off in the distance, he heard the clap of thunder.
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A slap with the hand, usually in a jovial manner.
- His father's affection never went further than a handshake or a clap on the shoulder.
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A single, sudden act or motion; a stroke; a blow.
- What, fifty of my followers at a clap! — 1603
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(slang) Synonym of gonorrhea.
- I stepped out of my tent in Marrakech one night to get a bar of candy and caught your dose of clap when that Wac I never even saw before hissed me into the bushes. — 1961
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A dropping of cow dung (presumably from the sound made as it hits the ground)
- “Oh! get some coo clap (cow dung), mix it wi’ fish oil (whale oil), put it on, and let it stop on all neet.” — 1890
The nether part of the beak of a hawk.

forms

clapped · clapt · clapping · clappeth · claps · clappest

Phrases with clap

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