Usually means: Strikes hands together to applaud.
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General (14 matching dictionaries)
  1. claps: Merriam-Webster
  2. claps: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. claps: Collins English Dictionary
  4. claps: Vocabulary.com
  5. Claps, claps: Wordnik
  6. claps: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. claps: Wiktionary
  8. Claps, claps: Dictionary.com
  9. claps: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  10. Claps: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. claps: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  12. Claps: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  13. claps: FreeDictionary.org
  14. Claps: TheFreeDictionary.com

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. claps: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. claps: Medical dictionary

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  2. claps: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. The Claps, claps: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (clap)

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:  (ambitransitive) 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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