Definition of Clap

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Definition of Clap

Clap

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.

To thrust, drive, put, or close, in a hasty or abrupt manner; -- often followed by to, into, on, or upon.

To manifest approbation of, by striking the hands together; to applaud; as, to clap a performance.

To express contempt or derision.

To knock, as at a door.

To strike the hands together in applause.

To come together suddenly with noise.

To enter with alacrity and briskness; -- with to or into.

To talk noisily; to chatter loudly.

A loud noise made by sudden collision; a bang.

A burst of sound; a sudden explosion.

A single, sudden act or motion; a stroke; a blow.

A striking of hands to express approbation.

Noisy talk; chatter.

The nether part of the beak of a hawk.

Gonorrhea.

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Clap Quotations

Will the people in the cheaper seats clap your hands? And the rest of you, if you'll just rattle your jewelry.
John Lennon

An aged man is but a paltry thing, a tattered coat upon a stick, unless soul clap its hands and sing, and louder sing for every tatter in its mortal dress.
William Butler Yeats

Do you believe in fairies? Say quick that you believe. If you believe, clap your hands!
James M. Barrie

There are a lot of guys in Hollywood who clap you on the back just a little too hard.
James Caan

Clap an extinguisher upon your irony if you are unhappily blessed with a vein of it.
Charles Lamb

Children are the most wonderful audiences. What's struck me most is that that they watch it so silently, until the end when they shriek and shout and clap.
Emma Thompson

I'd get more applause than some because I was just seventeen. If they didn't clap at the end of my act I would limp off stage and boy would they feel guilty. They would all burst into tremendous applause as they saw this poor cripple kid walking off.
Jim Dale

It takes two hands to clap! I cannot be solely blamed for what happened in my relationships! If things soured, it happened because of both parties. Not just me!
Akshay Kumar

I have seen him set fire to his wigwam and smooth over the graves of his fathers... clap his hand in silence over his mouth, and take the last look over his fair hunting ground, and turn his face in sadness to the setting sun.
George Catlin

The attack of John Brown upon Harper's Ferry came upon Virginia like a clap of thunder out of a clear sky.
John Sergeant Wise

Clap Translations

clap in Afrikaans is klik
clap in Dutch is applaudisseren, adhesie betuigen
clap in French is claquent, claquer, applaudissement, claquez
clap in German is klatschen, klatschen, Beifall
clap in Italian is pettegolare, applaudire, applauso
clap in Spanish is palmada

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