clap v.2
1. to shoot.
![]() | Smack Man (1991) 19: I could clap you with my fucking puppy in the right here and now. His puppy was the long barrell .45 [...] To clap was to shoot. | |
![]() | 🎵 My young boys clap heat / [...] / They shootin’ shit on site . | ‘Savage’|
![]() | 🎵 Free S that nigga was a clappaholic / Any talk no problem he clapping on it. | ‘What’s all the talk about’|
![]() | Forensic Linguistic Databank 🌐 Clap– attack, shoot. | (ed.) ‘Drill Slang Glossary’ at
2. (UK black/gang) to steal drugs.
![]() | Forensic Linguistic Databank 🌐 Clap– steal drugs. | (ed.) ‘Drill Slang Glossary’ at
SE in slang uses
In phrases
(UK black) to respond (aggressively).
![]() | Forensic Linguistic Databank 🌐 Clap back– retort, make an aggressive reply or response. | (ed.) ‘Drill Slang Glossary’ at|
![]() | Attack from Within 224: Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. [issued] a public rebuke [...] Trump clapped back in a series of posts on Twitter. |
to rush in vigorously, to push oneself forward, to arrive or leave in a decisive manner.
![]() | Rehearsal Transpos’d 63: Hearing of a vacancy with a Noble man, he clapp’d in, and easily obtained to be his Chaplain. | |
![]() | Further Adventures of Robinson Crusoe 115: To take the advantage and clap in between them and their boats. |
to get married, to perform the marriage ceremony.
![]() | Taming of the Shrew II i: Was ever a match clapp’d up so suddenly? | |
![]() | Greenes Tu Quoque Scene xvii: Shall we without further wrangling clap it up, And goe to Bed together? | |
![]() | The love-sick king n.p.: [A] months too long, hark you sister, wee’l clap it up privately to night [...] I say he shall marry thee to night. | |
![]() | The Wary Widdow 34: If you clap it up of a sudden, none will concern himself for a Woman that you have already enjoy’d. |
to commit oneself, to make a determined effort.
![]() | Punch 31 Jan. 80/2: And you’ll have to do no end of clapping on, I’m sure. |
of a woman, to masturbate.
![]() | GeorgeCarlin.com 🌐 Masturbation (Female): clap your clit. |