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Clapping   /klˈæpɪŋ/   Listen
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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"Clapping" Quotes from Famous Books



... mother's body. But from the attitudes of the mothers the position was now reversed, the little black heads hanging downwards upon the dark brown backs of the women. These were always in the highest state of good temper, often indulging when not at work in a general dance, and continually singing, and clapping ...
— By Sheer Pluck - A Tale of the Ashanti War • G. A. Henty
... Father (clapping her on the back). Of course she is, but it was never Laura's way to say much about her feelings; although this is really ...
— Three Comedies • Bjornstjerne M. Bjornson
... Good bird!" cried the King, clapping his hands to encourage the hawk, while the falconers broke into the shrill whoop peculiar to ...
— Sir Nigel • Arthur Conan Doyle
... city which had let Cortez in peaceably without asking the Emperor's leave, they demanded as a fine five and twenty Indian young men and forty girls to be offered in sacrifice to their idols. Cortez answered that by clapping them in irons, and then sending them back to the Emperor, with a message that whether he liked or not, he was ...
— True Words for Brave Men • Charles Kingsley
... himself. What it means in practice, of course, is that there is punishment waiting for a man who doesn't succeed in killing himself. We say to the man who is tired of life that if he bungles we propose to make this world still less attractive by clapping him into jail. I know an economist who has a scheme for keeping down the population by refusing very poor people a marriage license. He used to teach Sunday school and deplore promiscuity. In the annual report ...
— A Preface to Politics • Walter Lippmann


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