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[ noun ] a demonstration of approval by clapping the hands together

Used in print

(Whit Masterson, Evil Come, Evil Go....)

Their clapping grew more fervent ; the evening was still not beyond salvaging , not as a show but for him as a person .

(Octavia Waldo, A Cup of the Sun....)

The clapping they made on the concrete interrupted him in the ecstatic pleasure he knew , so that he quickly released his hold on the goat and pretended to be examining its haunches for ticks .

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