Definitions for claps

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Spelling: [klap]

IPA: /klæp/

Claps is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 76 anagrams from letters in claps (aclps).

Definitions for claps

noun

1. an act or instance of clapping.
2. the abrupt, sharp sound produced by clapping.
3. a resounding blow; slap.
4. a loud and abrupt or explosive noise, as of thunder.
5. a sudden stroke, blow, or act.
6. Printing. clapper (def 5).
7. Obsolete. a sudden mishap.
8. gonorrhea (often preceded by the).

Idioms

1. clap eyes on. eye (def 42).
2. clap hold of, Nautical. to take hold of.

verb (used with object)

1. to strike the palms of (one's hands) against one another resoundingly, and usually repeatedly, especially to express approval:
2. to strike (someone) amicably with a light, open-handed slap, as in greeting, encouragement, or the like:
3. to strike (an object) against something quickly and forcefully, producing an abrupt, sharp sound, or a series of such sounds:
4. to bring together forcefully (facing surfaces of the same object):
5. to applaud (a performance, speech, speaker, etc.) by clapping the hands:
6. to put or place quickly or forcefully:
7. to make or arrange hastily (often followed by up or together).

verb (used without object)

1. to clap the hands, as to express approval; applaud:
2. to make an abrupt, sharp sound, as of flat surfaces striking against one another:
3. to move or strike with such a sound:

Origin of claps

1175-1225; Middle English clappen, Old English clæppan; cognate with Middle Low German kleppen

Examples for claps

From outside I thought it was beautiful, and I began to clap my hands on reaching the house.

The music drifted through the rain and the woman started to clap her hands and dance.

No one applauded–rare on a night when hands tend to clap after every cough and sneeze.

Which is why you should: “clap along, if you feel like a room without a roof.”

He wanted to curse and swear, and had to clap his hands on his mouth to prevent it.

Everyone stood up to clap in his honor, including Mao himself.

Throw off your moorings, then, and clap on sail, for we must go.'

But the clap of thunder came on the very night of the nuptials.

Stewart hit the deck, only to pop back up and seamlessly transition into a clap.

At the first clap of thunder, Mademoiselle Remanjou made the sign of the cross.