Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. venereally diseased.

1650		H. Neville Newes from the New Exchange 3: My L[ords] Londen, Lauderdale and Dumferling were clapt in her hole of Repentence .
1659		Catterpillers of this Nation Anatomized 38: If she be clapt by trading too much [...] the Doctor takes pains To vamp her anew.
1669		R. L’Estrange Fables of Aesop LXVIII 68: What if [...] Tother Fine Woman Clapt.
1696		Motteux (trans.) Pantagruelian Prognostications (1927) II 694: Swaggering huff-snuffs, bouncing bullies, [...] tory-rory rakes and tantivy boys; peppered, clapped, and poxed dabblers .
1700		T. Brown Amusements Serious and Comical in Works (1744) III 63: In the tobacconist’s shop men were sneezing and spauling [i.e. shaking their shoulders] as if they were all clapt.
1707		Humours of a Coffee-House 10 Sept. 24: I am almost in as bad Condition as if I had been Clap’d.
1718		A. Ramsay Lucky Spence’s Last Advice [ballad] O Clapet Bess and Shanker Meg.
1719		in D’Urfey Pills to Purge Melancholy V 27: And when their Maiden-heads are sold to sneaking Lords, / Which Lords are Clapt at least nine-fold for taking of their Words.
1726		Select Trials at Old Bailey (1742) I 371: Several young Surgeons, who used to have their Injection, and Syringes at my House, and to bring their Patients, who were clapp’d, in order to [...] apply proper Remedies.
c.1758		John F---g Epistle of a Reformed Rake 47: If she gets Clapped or Poxed, she goes into the Lock.
1778		Thrale Thraliana i Dec. 355: [H]is Tutour seeing him look pale one Day—Sir said he you seem quite Ill of late, I fear you are Clap’d; No Sir but I am Pox’d replied the Lad:.
1888–94		‘Walter’ My Secret Life (1966) VIII 1693: I fucked also a cheap woman in the Park, and wonder I did not get clapped.
c.1930		(ref. to mid-19C) N. Kimball Amer. Madam (1981) 25: My father would cry out at Aunt Letty [...] ‘You damn hurr! you clapped-out hurr, you’re out of here by morning’.
1934		‘J.M. Hall’ Anecdota Americana II 26: I’d eat shit or suck a clapped up prick before I’d eat that stuff.
1951		(con. 1924) S. Longstreet Pedlocks (1971) 296: Fine boy. A real man. I hope he didn’t get clapped up.
1952		E. Hemingway letter 13 Sept. in Baker Sel. Letters (1981) 780: La puta mar that [...] has clapped us all and pox-ed us too.
1963		N. Dunn Up the Junction 58: They reckon he’s clapped-up to the eyeballs.
1972		C. Bukowski Erections, Ejaculations etc. 73: You’ve been selling that clapped hole of yours [...] for 30 years.
1973		D. Goines Street Players 123: The judge won’t wait forever, not even for a clapped up whore.
2007		S. Maloney Sucked In 65: Got clapped up in Cairo then invalided home.

2. (UK teen) unattractive.

2019

N. Lezard in New Statesman 28 June-4July 58/3: I ask [my son] to teach me young person’s slang. [...] ‘Clapped’ means ugly.