Claps is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for CLAPS in dictionary:

VERB:
• CLAP, the noise of striking two things together
• show approval of (a person or action) by clapping
• (of a bird) flap (its wings) audibly
• slap (someone) encouragingly on the back or shoulder
• Variant of Clasp
• strike the palms of (one's hands) together repeatedly, typically in order to applaud someone or something
• strike the palms of (one's hands) together once, especially as a signal
• place (a hand) briefly against or over one's mouth or forehead as a gesture of dismay or regret
NOUN:
• an act of striking together the palms of the hands
• a friendly slap or pat on the back or shoulder.
• an explosive sound, especially of thunder
• a venereal disease, especially gonorrhoea
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to strike one palm against the other

Words related to CLAPS

clap8 clapped14 clapping15 clapt9

Words that contain CLAPS

handclaps17 afterclaps17 thunderclaps20

How to use CLAPS in a sentence

• Conscience, the recorder that was so before Diabolus took Mansoul, began to talk aloud, and his words were now like great claps of thunder.
• But the hilarious Koli balances himself on the sloping thwarts and jumps and sings and claps his hands, while the pipes screech and the drums rattle.
• Up goes Tom, the guard holding on with one hand, while he claps the horn to his mouth.
• I slept soundly on my out-doors bed, but was awakened towards morning by two tremendous claps of thunder, echoing in the gorge, and the rattling of rain on the roof of the khan.
• In like manner, in the controversy about Pope, he claps Mr.
• All previous efforts paled into nothingness beside the outbursts of cheers that followed each other like claps of thunder up and down the long bank of fluttering color.
• A visitor claps his hands at the head of the court-yard stairs, to summon an attendant.
• Sounds as of huge planks lifted at one end and then allowed to fall, slamming upon the floor, hard, wooden claps, crashes, and noises of splitting and snapping, filled the shanty.
• A terrible noise filled the air, a complex noise, made up of the howls of the crushed waves, the roaring of the wind, and the claps of thunder.
• He claps wings to the sides of all the solid old lumber of the world, and I am capable once more of choosing a straight path in theory and practice.
• His theory being, that invisible flashes of lightening left her person, and that the knocks which every body could hear distinctly, were simply minute claps of thunder.
• He laughs, and cries, and claps, and thumps with his crutch, and if things go badly, he amuses the rest.
• Striking her hands together, she gave three little claps.
• The guns were firing at a tremendous rate, the shells exploding several miles away with a sound of jarring thunder claps.
• At this, the giant roared like claps of thunder, and began to lay about him with his iron club like one stark mad.
• And under and over the mist unlaps, And ruby and amethyst burn through the gray, And driest bushes grow green with spray, And the dimpled water its glad hands claps.
• The sound of the wind in the elms, like the strings of A harp being played, The note of the blackbird that claps with the wings of Delight in the glade.
• She opens wide the eyes which seem eternally full of tears, and in the grayish abiding half-mourning of imperfect cleanliness, in pallid excitement, she claps her hands.
• I remained at ease, encircled to the horizon by the machinery of war, surmounted by claps of living thunder.
• He claps his hands smartly together, flings them wildly above his head, and pounds away with his feet as if it were his firm intention to go through into the cellar.
• Each dancer claps hands and knees in a number of different ways, according to explanation and diagram which follow.
• At his back is drawen another that claps him desperatly hard and fast by the foot, that if he win out he may be drawen out wt him.
• When Mother Goose claps her hands the children group themselves on her side of platform, not in a stiff row, but as naturally as possible.
• I do not recollect more than three claps of thunder, or lightning, during the time I remained on the island.
• Where is his courier, the faithful Mustapha Cadi, all this while? As he mentions him, the sheik claps his hands and the guide appears.
• The sky was like a furnace, and the earth shook with the awful claps of thunder.
• From some distant region, the laugh of a child, the song of a canary-bird, reaches you, and then a door claps hastily to.

Similar words containing CLAP without suffix s

clap8 clapt9 clapnet11 clapped14 clapper13 clapdish16 clapnets12 clappers14 clapping15 claptrap14 handclap16 clapback20 afterclap16 clapboard16 clapbread16 clappered16 clappings16 claptraps15 handclaps17 afterclaps17 clapboards17 clapbreads17 clapdishes18 clapometer16 clapperboy21 clappering17 clapboarded19 clapometers17 clapperboys22 clapperclaw22 clapperings18 thunderclap19 clapboarding20 clapperboard21 clapperclaws23 claptrappery23 thunderclaps20 clapperboards22 clapperclawed25 clapperclawer24 clapperclawers25 clapperclawing26 claptrapperies22

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