(v. t.) 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.
(v. t.) To thrust, drive, put, or close, in a hasty or abrupt manner; -- often followed by to, into, on, or upon.
(v. t.) To manifest approbation of, by striking the hands together; to applaud; as, to clap a performance.
(v. t.) To express contempt or derision.
(v. i.) To knock, as at a door.
(v. i.) To strike the hands together in applause.
(v. i.) To come together suddenly with noise.
(v. i.) To enter with alacrity and briskness; -- with to or into.
(v. i.) To talk noisily; to chatter loudly.
(n.) A loud noise made by sudden collision; a bang.
(n.) A burst of sound; a sudden explosion.
(n.) A single, sudden act or motion; a stroke; a blow.
(n.) A striking of hands to express approbation.
(n.) Noisy talk; chatter.
(n.) The nether part of the beak of a hawk.
(n.) Gonorrhea.
Example Sentences:
(1) I think we are still trying to understand all that and I think that fits under the broader topic of social licence and what bringing in automation to an area does to that region as a whole, which we don’t quite know yet.” Could carbon farming be the answer for a 'clapped-out' Australia?
(2) Both the Labour and Conservative parties have constantly and repeatedly failed to honour promises they have made about reforming, cleaning, modernising our clapped-out system."
(3) Jan Krcmar observes: "Hang on a minute there, Drogba just clearly clapped his hands!
(4) When the news came through that all US personnel were uninjured, Manning's colleagues all cheered and clapped.
(5) And religious guru Asaram Bapu suggested that the victim was not blameless, asking provocatively: "Can one hand clap?"
(6) She excitedly described how all the women were singing and clapping as they waited together in a communal cell.
(7) The miner's wife, Siân James, is to his left, staring directly at him, clapping too, looking as though she cannot believe her eyes.
(8) "The two men high-five each other, clap their hands, and do what looks like an extraordinary dance of celebration that lasts for three minutes.
(9) The hour-long event at the gates of the city hall concluded with a two-minute "no silence" where participants whistled, shouted, clapped and played musical instruments.
(10) Bolt wrote: “(Note: part of the Q&A audience actually clapped Mallah.
(11) There's an extraordinary array of high performance models that can do almost anything, but there's also a lot of clapped-out old bangers from the former communist bloc that can leak, break down and possibly even explode.
(12) When you go out on stage and people clap you, that's a mood-altering experience.
(13) "The problem comes down to a whole range of clapped-out rules and arrangements.
(14) She might not clap that line but the truth is the audience know I’m being sincere in the fact I’m just literally saying what I think.
(15) The obtained CLAP values in five healthy subjects and five patients with chronic liver disease coincided well (r greater than 0.9994) with those generated by the use of an established method.
(16) My friends and I clapped,” said Rukhmini Puri, a history student, as she emerged with her friends from a cinema in Nehru Place in Delhi, the Indian capital.
(17) The protests were so effective at associating clapping with dissent that the traditional 3 July independence day military parade was held without applause with only the brass bands of the military puncturing the silence .
(18) The players came in last so that we could clap them – and then he came.
(19) The orchestra plays a march and they accompany with clapping and stamping."
(20) Eubank Senior’s clapping grew more insistent as the crowd began to boo, rightly so.
Crap
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) However, the policy is not being replaced and it suggests that Cameron has lost interest in what was once a key plank of his attempt to modernise the Conservative party and is quietly “ getting rid of the green crap ”, as he once called the extra costs attached to heating bills to subsidise energy efficiency.
(2) From the genesis of the thing – pop stars dropping plans to perform; Greater Manchester police working to make it operationally possible; the footballer Michael Carrick moving his career testimonial match forward by two hours ; everything was about making things that little bit less crap, and dare I say it – out and out joyous.
(3) This is payback, without a doubt.” The workers recently won the support of Will Self, who supported a boycott of the venue, writing : “If the punters wake up and smell the crap coffee of corporate greed, perhaps we won’t be so keen on contributing to those revenues.
(4) It’s just tokenistic crap so they can get more back pats from the broader community,” he said.
(5) They were apparently trying to promote a healthy lifestyle to the Russian public, but Muscle and Fitness magazine slated the president’s technique: “his cable crossover form is crap”.
(6) My father was a very important role model in my life and in his own way helped me to set high expectations for myself, to stand on my own two feet and to not take crap.
(7) Star Wars , it turns out, is the most ambitious, enterprising and impressive exercise in the marketing of crap ever conceived by man.
(8) "Being a contrary sort of person, I figured there had been enough politically correct crap going around.
(9) Our respondents explained why: "At the employment office, they look at you like you're crap."
(10) Tory rhetoric on the burden of renewable energy to bill payers has been relentless ever since David Cameron infamously referred to the levies as “green crap” .
(11) He begins his first-person narrative in words that echo the famous opening of Twain’s novel ( No 23 in this series ), a frank disavowal of “all that David Copperfield kind of crap”.
(12) Because people tend to treat social media as conversational,” says internet psychologist Graham Jones , “they get the feeling they are just chatting with their friends, hence many of the apparent online death threats could be nothing more than the non-realistic conversational expressions of anger.” “Crap!” tweeted 28-year-old trainee accountant Paul Chambers in 2010 to his 690 followers.
(13) It’s more hard-wired than that; it’s crap but comforting cuisine, your first Meccano set, moral certainties, safety.
(14) "We don't need the big star, we can just load up on Michael Bourns and Nick Swishers, kick the crap out of the bottom feeders, catch a few breaks and make the playoffs - I love it."
(15) November 5, 2013 Peter Spiegel (@SpiegelPeter) Draghi has incentive to make sure he doent have "crap in his hands" after EU bank asset review next year, says #Rehn November 5, 2013 Matthew Dalton (@DJMatthewDalton) The incentive not to have crap on one's hands is universal.
(16) Michael Palin has said that a lot of Monty Python's material was "crap", in an interview with the Telegraph .
(17) Here (at least on the night I watched; the acts vary nightly), the joke is comedians performing crap circus acts.
(18) How do you cleanse the palate after watching a soul-destroyingly crap movie?
(19) The Sun quoted an unnamed source as saying: "The prime minister is going round Number 10 saying: 'We have got to get rid of all this green crap'.
(20) He didn't have to give a crap about me but he arranged for me to go on stages.