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Clap Klæp Noun Bre Give Praise End Performance

Word clap
WordType (noun)
Phonetic BrE / klæp / NAmE / klæp /
Example
  • give him a clap! (= to praise somebody at the end of a performance)
  • with a clap of his hands he ordered more food.
  • a clap of thunder
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clap

(noun)BrE / klæp / NAmE / klæp /
  1. 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.
  2. a sudden loud noise
    • a clap of thunder
  3. a disease of the sexual organs, caught by having sex with an infected person
    • synonym gonorrhoea
      https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/gonorrhoea

    Word Origin

    • noun 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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