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Claptrap :: Claptrap (n.) A trick or device to gain applause; humbug.

Popularity :: Popularity (n.) Something which obtains, or is intended to obtain, the favor of the vulgar; claptrap..

Clap :: Clap (v. t.) To thrust, drive, put, or close, in a hasty or abrupt manner; -- often followed by to, into, on, or upon..

Clapped :: Clapped (imp. & p. p.) of Cla.

Clapper :: Clapper (n.) That which strikes or claps, as the tongue of a bell, or the piece of wood that strikes a mill hopper, etc. See Illust. of Bell..

Clap :: Clap (v. i.) To enter with alacrity and briskness; -- with to or into.

Clap :: Clap (v. t.) To manifest approbation of, by striking the hands together; to applaud; as, to clap a performance..

Clap :: Clap (n.) A loud noise made by sudden collision; a bang.

Clapperclaw :: Clapperclaw (v. t.) To fight and scratch.

Clap :: Clap (n.) A burst of sound; a sudden explosion.

Applause :: Applause (n.) The act of applauding; approbation and praise publicly expressed by clapping the hands, stamping or tapping with the feet, acclamation, huzzas, or other means; marked commendation..

Knacker :: Knacker (n.) One of two or more pieces of bone or wood held loosely between the fingers, and struck together by moving the hand; -- called also clapper..

Clap :: Clap (n.) Noisy talk; chatter.

Clapboard :: Clapboard (n.) A stave for a cask.

Clapperclaw :: Clapperclaw (v. t.) To abuse with the tongue; to revile; to scold.

Clack :: Clack (v. t.) Anything that causes a clacking noise, as the clapper of a mill, or a clack valve..

Personification :: Personification (n.) A figure of speech in which an inanimate object or abstract idea is represented as animated, or endowed with personality; prosopop/ia; as, the floods clap their hands..

Clinker-built :: Clinker-built (a.) Having the side planks (af a boat) so arranged that the lower edge of each overlaps the upper edge of the plank next below it like clapboards on a house. See Lapstreak.

Clap :: Clap (n.) The nether part of the beak of a hawk.

Spat :: Spat (v. t.) To slap, as with the open hand; to clap together; as the hands..

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