Clap-Board
' clap-bread ' (q.v.) was beaten out.
📜 This word in 1898 dialectexpand
' clap-bread ' (q.v.) was beaten out.
Joseph Wright, English Dialect Dictionary (1898–1905)
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- clap61%
To beat someone decisively — usually in a video game, but extended to any lopsided loss. "Got clapped" = got destroyed. Can also reference the physical sound (👏) or an applause-style taunt typed after a win.
- clap out59%
(transitive) To clap to the rhythm of (a song).
- clapped58%
(slang, MLE) Extremely ugly; physically unattractive.
- clapback57%
(uncountable, countable, music) An exercise where the pupil is instructed to repeat a previously played rhythm by clapping.
- clap out57%
(intransitive, slang) To fail; to stop working.