clap
noun/klæp/
/klæp/
- [singular] an act of clapping the hands; the sound this makes
- Give him a clap! (= to praise somebody at the end of a performance)
- With a clap of his hands he ordered more food.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- big
- slow
- get
- give somebody
- clap for
- a clap of somebody’s hands
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- [countable] a sudden loud noise
- a clap of thunder
- (also the clap)[uncountable] (informal) a disease of the sexual organs, caught by having sex with a person who already has the disease synonym gonorrhoea
Word Originnoun senses 1 to 2 Old English clappan ‘throb, beat’, of imitative origin. Sense (1) dates from late Middle English. noun sense 3 late 16th cent.: from Old French clapoir ‘venereal bubo’.
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