Crossword-Solution: CLAP 4 letters, 308 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 8

Dictionary

Word	Word Type	Definition
Clap	v. t.	To strike; to slap; to strike, or strike together, with a quick motion, so, as to make a sharp noise; as, to clap one's hands; a clapping of wings.
Clap	v. t.	To thrust, drive, put, or close, in a hasty or abrupt manner; -- often followed by to, into, on, or upon.
Clap	v. t.	To manifest approbation of, by striking the hands together; to applaud; as, to clap a performance.
Clap	v. t.	To express contempt or derision.
Clap	v. i.	To knock, as at a door.
Clap	v. i.	To strike the hands together in applause.
Clap	v. i.	To come together suddenly with noise.
Clap	v. i.	To enter with alacrity and briskness; -- with to or into.
Clap	v. i.	To talk noisily; to chatter loudly.
Clap	n.	A loud noise made by sudden collision; a bang.
Clap	n.	A burst of sound; a sudden explosion.
Clap	n.	A single, sudden act or motion; a stroke; a blow.
Clap	n.	A striking of hands to express approbation.
Clap	n.	Noisy talk; chatter.
Clap	n.	The nether part of the beak of a hawk.
Clap	n.	Gonorrhea.

Anagrams

Word		Anagrams
CLAP	anagram	CALP

We have 308 clues for the answer “CLAP”

Clue	Answers
"Please ___" (request to an unenthusiastic crowd)	1 answer
"Please ___...?" (Depressing request from Jeb Bush)	1 answer
Abrupt bit of thunder	1 answer
Acknowledge the band	1 answer
Applaud a tv show	1 answer
Applause from Thor?	1 answer
Appreciate a performance	1 answer
Audiences do it	1 answer
Bad-weather sound	1 answer
Be a good fan	1 answer
Bit of fan appreciation	1 answer
Burning in one's loins, with "the"	1 answer
Burst of thunder	1 answer
Certain hand-to-hand contact	1 answer
Clean erasers	1 answer
Clean, as erasers	1 answer
Crash of thunder.	1 answer
Curtain-call sound	1 answer
Eggspress approval	1 answer
Encourage the cast	1 answer
Endorse a statement, perhaps	1 answer
Erasers Clean	1 answer
Express appreciation in a way	1 answer
Express approval, in a way	1 answer
Express glee	1 answer
Express glee, in a way	1 answer
Express pleasure, in a way	1 answer
Flamenco sound	1 answer
Flash follower, weatherwise	1 answer
Give a hand (or two)?	1 answer
Give a hand for a band	1 answer
Give a hand with both hands	1 answer
Give a round of applause	1 answer
Give a standing ovation	1 answer
Give an ovation	1 answer
Give it up, colloquially	1 answer
Give it up, to Arsenio	1 answer
Give one a hand	1 answer
Give somebody a hand	1 answer
Give the band a hand	1 answer
Give the performer a hand	1 answer
Give the performers a hand	1 answer
Go hand to hand?	1 answer
Hand-to-hand contact	1 answer
Heed an "Applause" sign	1 answer
Honor an honoree, say	1 answer
It goes hand to hand	1 answer
Join hands at show?	1 answer
Join the claque	1 answer
Keep time manually	1 answer

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Hint 1 meaning

One who, or that which, eats.

Hint 2 anagram

EERAT

Hint 3 another clue

greedy person

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Sentences with CLAP (5)

Over the Maybury arch a train, a billowing tumult of white, firelit smoke, and a long caterpillar of lighted windows, went flying south—clatter, clatter, clap, rap, and it had gone.

The War of the Worlds H. G. Wells 1992

The tale was told of old Brouwer, a most heretical disbeliever in ghosts, how he met the Horseman returning from his foray into Sleepy Hollow, and was obliged to get up behind him; how they galloped over bush and brake, over hill and swamp, until they reached the bridge; when the Horseman suddenly turned into a skeleton, threw old Brouwer into the brook, and sprang away over the tree-tops with a clap of thunder.

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow Washington Irving 1992

Christmas, Ebenezer! Let's have the shutters up," cried old Fezziwig, with a sharp clap of his hands, "before a man can say Jack Robinson!" You wouldn't believe how those two fellows went at it! They charged into the street with the shutters--one, two, three--had 'em up in their places--four, five, six--barred 'em and pinned 'em--seven, eight, nine--and came back before you could have got to twelve, panting like race-horses.

A Christmas Carol Charles Dickens 1992

The bourgeois clap-trap about the family and education, about the hallowed co-relation of parent and child, becomes all the more disgusting, the more, by the action of Modern Industry, all family ties among the proletarians are torn asunder, and their children transformed into simple articles of commerce and instruments of labour.

The Communist Manifesto Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels 1993

And, mind you, when a girl tries to catch anything in her lap she throws her knees apart; she don’t clap them together, the way you did when you catched the lump of lead.

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) 1993

Quotes with CLAP (3)

I went to a tattoo parlor and had YES written onto the palm of my left hand, and NO onto my right palm, what can I say, it hasn't made my life wonderful, its made life possible, when I rub my hands against each other in the middle of winter I am warming myself with the friction of YES and NO, when I clap my hands I am showing my appreciation through the uniting and parting of YES and NO, I signify "book" by peeling open my hands, every book, for me, is the balance of YES and …

Jonathan Safran Foer

For Jenn At 12 years old I started bleeding with the moonand beating up boys who dreamed of becoming astronauts. I fought with my knuckles white as stars, and left bruises the shape of Salem. There are things we know by heart, and things we don't. At 13 my friend Jen tried to teach me how to blow rings of smoke. I'd watch the nicotine rising from her lips like halos, but I could never make dying beautiful. The sky didn't fill with colors the night I convinced myselfveins are …

Andrea Gibson

Sometimes when I see a bad performance and people still clap... I wonder if they're clapping because they liked what they saw or because they're happy it's over?

Kanye West Thank You and You're Welcome

Where this answer appears

Appears in: AARP, Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, Daily Beast, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, Rock & Roll, S&S, Slate, The Atlantic, Three Across, TIME, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 603 times in crossword archives (1967–2025).