clap
Other forms: clapped; clapping; claps
To clap is to strike your hands together. After an awesome play, an audience will clap and maybe even stand up and hoot. A clap is also any loud or sharp noise or collision, like a clap of thunder.
After you see a performance, it's polite to clap — smack your hands together quickly and repeatedly. To clap also means to put something down quickly and with force, like if you clap a plate on a table. Any sharp, loud sound is a clap, like a clap caused by an explosion. Clapping two objects together quickly will cause a clap. All types of claps and clapping involve sharp movements and loud sounds.
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clap one's hands together
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clap one's hands or shout after performances to indicate approval
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strike with the flat of the hand; usually in a friendly way, as in encouragement or greetingtype of:hitdeal a blow to, either with the hand or with an instrument
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strike together so as to produce a sharp percussive noise“clap two boards together”type of:hitcause to move by striking
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put quickly or forcibly
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a sudden, loud sound
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a sharp abrupt noise as if two objects hit together; may be repeated
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strike the air in flight
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cause to strike the air in flight
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a common venereal disease caused by the bacterium Neisseria gonorrhoeae; symptoms are painful urination and pain around the urethrasynonyms: gonorrhea, gonorrhoeatype of:Cupid's disease, Cupid's itch, STD, VD, Venus's curse, dose, sexually transmitted disease, social disease, venereal disease, venereal infectiona communicable infection transmitted by sexual intercourse or genital contact
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