Usually means: Striking hands together to applaud.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. clap, the clap: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. clap, clap: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. clap, clap: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. clap, the clap: Collins English Dictionary
  5. clap: Vocabulary.com
  6. Clap, clap: Wordnik
  7. clap, the clap: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. clap: Wiktionary
  9. clap: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. clap: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. clap: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. clap, the clap: Dictionary.com
  13. clap (n.), clap (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. clap: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. CLAP, Clap (Hostyle Gospel song), Clap (disambiguation), Clap, The Clap, The clap: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Clap: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. clap: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. clap: Rhymezone
  19. clap: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. clap: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. CLAP: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  22. clap: Free Dictionary
  23. clap: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. clap: Dictionary/thesaurus

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. The clap, clap: Encyclopedia

Medicine (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Clap: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  3. Clap: Merck Manuals
  4. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  5. The clap, clap: Medical dictionary
  6. Rudy's List of Archaic Medical Terms (No longer online)
  7. University of Maryland Glossary of Medical Terms (No longer online)
  8. Clap: Drug Medical Dictionary

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Ka-BOOM! Comicbook Words on Historical Principles (No longer online)
  2. CLAP: Acronym Finder
  3. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  4. clap: Idioms

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. CLAP: Cytokines & Cells Online Pathfinder Encyclopaedia

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. clap, clap, clap: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. clap: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  3. C.L.A.P, the clap: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See claping as well.)

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

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