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Definition of Clapped out
1. Adjective. Worn from age or heavy use and no longer able to operate (of cars or machines or people).
Similar to: Worn
Lexicographical Neighbors of Clapped Out
Literary usage of Clapped out
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. "Their Majesties' Servants.": Annals of the English Stage, from Thomas by Doran (John), Richard Henry Stoddard (1890)
"... and explained his apparent inconsistency, by stating that he had received a
free ticket from the author, and that he clapped out of gratitude to the ..."
2. Works of the Camden Society by Camden Society (Great Britain), Royal Historical Society (Great Britain) (1878)
"We say then boldly, First, that he was neither whistled nor clapped out of Rome,
nor else otherwise rejected for any such opinion as they lay to his charge, ..."
3. "Their Majesties' Servants".: Annals of the English Stage from Thomas by John Doran, Richard Henry Stoddard (1880)
"... and explained his apparent inconsistency, by stating that he had received a
free ticket from the author, and that he clapped out of gratitude to the ..."
4. Publications by English Dialect Society (1896)
"Clap. To pat. Icel. klappa, to pat. Clap-bread. (Dan. klappe brod.) Thin cakes
beaten or clapped out with the hand. Claver. To climb. Dan. Havre. Clegg. ..."
5. Sam Slick's Wise Saws and Modern Instances, Or, What He Said, Did, Or Invented by Thomas Chandler Haliburton (1853)
"It sat up on its hind-legs, and clapped out its tail stiff against the ground,
and that made a natural stool, and then it took its young ones on its knees ..."
6. Everyday Problems in Teaching by Michael Vincent O'Shea (1912)
"By special vocal execution children in the primary grade the song should be
clapped out in response to ar alone could ascribe a rhythmical character to ..."
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