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clapping

verbnouncommon in dialogue

  • //ˈklæpɪŋ//

The action by which someone or something claps.

verb

  1. 1

    Also a form of clappresent participle and gerund of clap

Etymology

From Middle English clappynge; equivalent to clap + -ing.

noun

  1. 1

    The action by which someone or something claps.

Forms

plural
clappings
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).