Usually means: Device that activates with sound.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. clapper: Merriam-Webster
  2. clapper: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. clapper: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. clapper: Collins English Dictionary
  5. clapper: Vocabulary.com
  6. Clapper, clapper: Wordnik
  7. clapper: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Clapper: InfoVisual Visual Dictionary
  9. Clapper, clapper: Wiktionary
  10. clapper: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. clapper: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. clapper: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Clapper, clapper: Dictionary.com
  14. clapper: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Clapper (musical instrument), Clapper, The Clapper (film), The Clapper: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Clapper: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. clapper: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. clapper: Rhymezone
  19. Clapper: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. clapper: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Clapper: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  22. clapper: FreeDictionary.org
  23. clapper: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. clapper: TheFreeDictionary.com
  25. clapper: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. clapper: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. clapper: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. clapper, clapper, clapper: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. clapper, the clapper: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Bridge Dictionary (No longer online)

(Note: See clappering as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  One who claps; a person who applauds by clapping the hands.
noun:  An object so suspended inside a bell that it may hit the bell and cause it to ring; a clanger or tongue.
noun:  A wooden mechanical device used as a scarecrow; bird-scaring rattle, a wind-rattle or a wind-clapper.
noun:  A clapstick (musical instrument).
noun:  (sewing) A pounding block.
noun:  The chattering damsel of a mill.
noun:  (ice hockey) A slapshot
noun:  (cinematography) The hinged part of a clapperboard, used to synchronise images and soundtrack, or the clapperboard itself.
noun:  (slang) A person's tongue.
verb:  (transitive) To ring a bell by pulling a rope attached to the clapper.
verb:  To make a repetitive clapping sound; to clatter.
verb:  Of birds, to repeatedly strike the mandibles together.
noun:  (obsolete) A rabbit burrow.
noun:  A surname.

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