Meaning of Clap | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Gonorrhea.
   slang, usually, with-definite-article
2. The act of striking the palms of the hands, or any two surfaces, together.
3. The explosive sound of thunder.
4. Any loud, sudden, explosive sound made by striking hard surfaces together, or resembling such a sound.
5. A slap with the hand, usually in a jovial manner.
6. A single, sudden act or motion; a stroke; a blow.
7. The nether part of the beak of a hawk.
8. A dropping of cow dung (presumably from the sound made as it hits the ground)
   Yorkshire

Equivalents

Examples

“He summoned the waiter with a clap.”

“The deafening claps of thunder and the dazzling flashes of lightning which lit up the ghastly scene testified that the artillery of heaven had lent its supernatural pomp to the already gruesome spectacle.”

“With each clap of thunder echoing from one high building to another the noise was terrific.”

“Off in the distance, he heard the clap of thunder.”

“Give the door such a clap, as you go out, as will shake the whole room.”

“His father's affection never went further than a handshake or a clap on the shoulder.”

“What, fifty of my followers at a clap!”

“But it took him a long time to get down-stairs, and a still longer to undo the fastenings, repenting (I dare say) and taken with fresh claps of fear at every second step and every bolt and bar.”

““Oh! get some coo clap (cow dung), mix it wi’ fish oil (whale oil), put it on, and let it stop on all neet.””

“With the mischiefe of the melt and maw, / The clape and the canker,—”

“I stepped out of my tent in Marrakech one night to get a bar of candy and caught your dose of clap when that Wac I never even saw before hissed me into the bushes.”

““What in hell makes you think he's got the clap?” Hawkeye asked. “Even a clap doctor can't diagnose it through a parka”

“He thought I had given him the clap [gonorrhea], but I knew I didn't.”

“One result of the sexual revolution was the spread of venereal disease to near-epidemic proportions. The clap was, as one writer put it, “one of the hangups of the new morality.””

“When I explained that I thought he had given me the clap, he said I must be mistaken, it had to be someone I'd “tricked” with at ... He'd never had an STD in his life, he told me, and slammed down the phone.”

“Gonorrhea, sometimes called the clap, is caused by a bacterium called Neisseria gonorrhoeae.”

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