to clap

Examples

• All

• While flying low over the water, the ducks started to clap their wings, splashing droplets everywhere.

• The seagulls above me were clapping their wings, creating a beautiful sound against the salty breeze.

• I can hear the cougars clapping.

  The Visit (2015)

• Seals on a rock, barking, sleeping, clapping.

  Fiction book (1992)

• The apple tree moves to and fro, like a happy child clapping.

  Fiction book (1999)

• Schoolboys in their respective school blazers, Afrikaan and English, yell, whistle, and clap.

  Fiction book (1992)

• Kara ambles up the walk of the Myers house, shoes clapping up the porch steps as she digs the keys out of her overstuffed bag.

  Fiction book (1995)

Idioms

A

a dose of the clap

• Offensive

9.9

A thing that is very unpleasant or embarrassing, like a joke that is not funny

Phrasal Verbs

C

to clap eyes on

• Archaic

1 8.0

To see someone or something for the first time

C

to clap on a smile

• UK

7.5

To put on a quick fake smile to hide how you feel

C

to clap on

• UK

7.2

To put a quick layer of something like sunscreen or paint on without care

C

to clap together

• UK

6.8

To make something quickly and without care using what you have

C

to clap up

• UK

9.8

To put something together quickly and without care

How Audible

to clap

2 7.4

flap

23 2.0

to flutter

35 3.5

Surface Forms

Etymology