Usually means: Tool for synchronizing scene, take.
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  1. clapperboard: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  2. clapperboard: Collins English Dictionary
  3. clapperboard: Vocabulary.com
  4. clapperboard: Wordnik
  5. clapperboard: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. clapperboard: Wiktionary
  7. clapperboard: Dictionary.com
  8. Clapperboard (TV series), Clapperboard: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. clapperboard: Rhymezone
  10. clapperboard: FreeDictionary.org
  11. clapperboard: Mnemonic Dictionary
  12. clapperboard: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. clapperboard: Encyclopedia

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  1. clapperboard: Urban Dictionary

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noun:  (film) A device used in film production, having hinged boards that are brought together with a clap, used at the start of each take of a motion picture or other video production to be able to synchronize picture and sound during editing.
verb:  To use a clapperboard, especially to clap it to start a film take.

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