Contextualizebeta

handclap

noun

Etymology

From hand + clap.

  1. inherited from *klappōną✻ — “to clap”
  2. inherited from *klappijan✻
  3. inherited from clæppan
  4. inherited from clappen
  5. compounded as handclap — “hand + clap”

Definitions

  1. A single clap of the hands.

    • The other good news: This new song recaptures the sunny feel of "Collapsing," complete with ethereal vocals, lush strings and, of course, plenty of handclaps.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for handclap. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA