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
I can go into restaurants and a whole table will get up and clap if they recognize me, because they love Fox News. Other places - or even the same place - people will turn the other way.
Rupert Murdoch
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
Clap an extinguisher upon your irony if you are unhappily blessed with a vein of it.
Charles Lamb
My husband is a composer, so he plays piano all the time and I sit there and clap telling my unborn child, 'Hear me clap, hear the music.' I know music, in general, is supposed to be good for babies to hear.
Danica McKellar
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
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
In matters of commerce the fault of the Dutch Is offering too little and asking too much. The French are with equal advantage content, So we clap on Dutch bottoms just twenty per cent.
George Canning
Don't clap too hard - it's a very old building.
John Osborne
We should not clap our hands and mourn, for he is out of trouble. You are still in it.
David Ruffin
It takes two hands to clap.
Jiang Zemin
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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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