Clappers
nounid
28758·updated May 18, 2026verified
a percussion instrument consisting of a pair of hollow pieces of wood or bone (usually held between the thumb and fingers) that are made to click together (as by Spanish dancers) in rhythm with the dance
polysemous
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Classifications
Entity Type
Unknown—glossary_import_default_pending_classifier
Sensitivity
unclassified
Information Class
unclassified
Variants
- synonym
- applauderboneslinguatongue
- alternatephrasing
- Clapper
- possessive
- Clappers's
- pluralpossessive
- Clapperses'
Framework definitions
- §1
- a percussion instrument consisting of a pair of hollow pieces of wood or bone (usually held between the thumb and fingers) that are made to click together (as by Spanish dancers) in rhythm with the dance
- §2
- a mobile mass of muscular tissue covered with mucous membrane and located in the oral cavity
- §3
- someone who applauds
- §1 · legacy_primary
- a percussion instrument consisting of a pair of hollow pieces of wood or bone (usually held between the thumb and fingers) that are made to click together (as by Spanish dancers) in rhythm with the danceDR-088 backfill from the noun definition column
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