How to pronounce “the clap”

Meaning

• [Noun]
• The act of striking the palms of the hands, or any two surfaces, together.
• The explosive sound of thunder.
• Any loud, sudden, explosive sound made by striking hard surfaces together, or resembling such a sound.
• A slap with the hand, usually in a jovial manner.
• A single, sudden act or motion; a stroke; a blow.
• (falconry) The nether part of the beak of a hawk.
• (Yorkshire) A dropping of cow dung (presumably from the sound made as it hits the ground) [1]
• [Verb]
• (intransitive) To strike the palms of the hands together, creating a sharp sound.
• (transitive) To applaud.
• (transitive) To slap with the hand in a jovial manner.
• (ambitransitive) To bring two surfaces together forcefully, creating a sharp sound.
• (obsolete) To slam (a door or window); formerly often construed with to.
• (transitive) To create or assemble (something) hastily (usually followed by up or together).
• (transitive) To set or put, usually in haste.
• (slang, African-American Vernacular) To shoot (somebody) with a gun.
• (slang) To have sex, fornicate, copulate.
• (transitive, slang) To defeat.

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