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What is the noun for clapper?

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clap
  1. The act of striking the palms of the hands, or any two surfaces, together.
  2. The explosive sound of thunder.
  3. Any loud, sudden, explosive sound made by striking hard surfaces together, or resembling such a sound.
  4. A slap with the hand, usually in a jovial manner.
  5. A single, sudden act or motion; a stroke; a blow.
  6. (falconry) The nether part of the beak of a hawk.
  7. (Yorkshire) A dropping of cow dung (presumably from the sound made as it hits the ground)
  8. Synonyms:
      9. bang, crash, boom, crack, pop, smash, report, blast, slam, snap, whump, whack, thunderclap, thwack, thunder, whomp, pat, strike, tap, burst, roar, rumble, explosion, peal, reverberation, wham, clash, detonation, rumbling, sound, shot, clang, din, resounding, thump, thud, booming, echo, smack, barrage, noise, roll, crashing, pounding, roaring, growl, grumble, knock, discharge, clunk … more
  9. Examples:
      10. “Just as I was about to power up the mower, there was a clap of thunder and the rain began to fall.”
      “He received a huge clap from the crowd when he finished the race.”
      “Old Red was congratulating his student with a clap on the back when a heartstopping shriek pierced the morning air.”
clapper
  1. One who claps.
  2. An object so suspended inside a bell that it may hit the bell and cause it to ring.
  3. A wooden mechanical device used as a scarecrow; bird-scaring rattle, a wind-rattle or a wind-clapper.
  4. A clapstick (musical instrument).
  5. (sewing) A pounding block.
  6. Synonyms:
      7. clapperboard, board, clapboard, clapstick, marker, slate, sticks, slate board, sync slate, musicstick, castanet, clackers, castanet clappers, hand clapper, spectator, observer, onlooker, viewer, watcher, bystander, beholder, eyewitness, witness, sightseer, audience, gaper, gazer, kibitzer, looker, perceiver, rubberneck, seer, standee, stander-by, fly on the wall, looker-on, non-participant, pounding block … more
clapboard
  1. A narrow board, usually thicker at one edge than the other, used as siding for houses and similar structures of frame construction.
  2. (uncountable) Such boards, arranged horizontally and overlapping with thick edge down, collectively, as siding.
  3. (archaic, Britain) An oak board of a size used for barrel staves.
  4. Synonyms:
      5. clapperboard, board, clapper, clapstick, marker, slate, sticks, slate board, sync slate
claptrap
  1. empty verbiage or nonsense [from early 19th c.]
  2. (historical) A device for producing a clapping sound in theaters.
  3. a trick or device to gain applause; humbug
  4. Synonyms:
      5. gibberish, hogwash, nonsense, baloney, drivel, garbage, malarkey, poppycock, balderdash, blather, codswallop, crock, dribble, phooey, piffle, twaddle, wack, blathers, boloney, bulldust, bunk, bunkum, fiddlesticks, folly, hokum, hooey, humbug, rubbish, tosh, trash, tripe, waffle, applesauce, blither, bombast, bull, crapola, eyewash, flapdoodle, guff, horsefeathers, moonshine, palaver, rot, balls, blah, blah-blah, foolishness, fudge, gammon … more
  5. Examples:
      6. “I am betraying little if I say that the piece concludes with two happy couples and much sentimental claptrap.”
      “Long before he died, he wrote an essay, The Myth of Sisyphus, which in a normal mood I usually dismiss as overwrought claptrap.”
      “Of course, since astrology is all complete claptrap, this shouldn't concern me at all, should it?”
clapstick
  1. A kind of drumstick used by striking one against another, to maintain rhythm in Aboriginal voice chants.
  2. A clapperboard.
  3. Synonyms:
      4. clapper, musicstick, sticks, clapboard, marker, board, slate, clapperboard, sync slate, slate board … more
clapback
  1. (music) An exercise where the pupil is instructed to repeat a previously played rhythm by clapping.
  2. (African American Vernacular), (gay slang) A witty or sarcastic reply.
  3. Synonyms:
      4. answer, reply, response, reaction, return, comeback, rejoinder, retort, acknowledgement, explanation, riposte, feedback, repartee, replication, report, take, acknowledgment, antiphon, comment, observation, remark, statement, disclosure, echo, elucidation, guff, interpretation, back talk, parting shot, rhetorical question, counter, wisecrack, sally, lip, snappy comeback, witticism, quip, witty remark, counterattack, pushback, counterblast, respond, kickback, reciprocation, backfire, knee-jerk reaction, RSVP, one-liner, clever remark, snappy retort … more
clapboard
  1. (film) A clapper board; a device used in film production, having hinged boards that are brought together with a clap, used to synchronize picture and sound at the start of each take of a motion picture or other video production.
  2. Synonyms:
      3. clapperboard, board, clapper, clapstick, marker, slate, sticks, slate board, sync slate
clapperboard
  1. (film) A device used in film production, having hinged boards that are brought together with a clap, used to synchronize picture and sound at the start of each take of a motion picture or other video production.
  2. Synonyms:
      3. board, clapboard, clapper, clapstick, marker, slate, sticks, slate board, sync slate
  3. Examples:
      4. “The director called for action and the clapperboard marked the beginning of the scene with a satisfying clap.”
      “I hope he didn't, from force of habit, use a clapperboard when he did his online show.”
      “The clapperboard sounded again, as the director launched the film at a temple at AVM studios on Sunday, cheered by a surging crowd.”
clapalong
  1. (rare) A musical performance which the audience is encouraged to accompany by clapping the hands.
clapcake
  1. (obsolete) oatmeal cake or bread clapped or beaten until thin
  2. Synonyms:
      3. clapbread
claptrappery
  1. claptrap; nonsense
clapper
  1. (obsolete) A rabbit burrow.
  2. Synonyms:
      3. clapperboard, board, clapboard, clapstick, marker, slate, sticks, slate board, sync slate, musicstick, castanet, clackers, castanet clappers, hand clapper, spectator, observer, onlooker, viewer, watcher, bystander, beholder, eyewitness, witness, sightseer, audience, gaper, gazer, kibitzer, looker, perceiver, rubberneck, seer, standee, stander-by, fly on the wall, looker-on, non-participant, pounding block … more
clapping
  1. The action by which someone or something claps.
  2. Synonyms:
      3. applause, ovation, acclamation, acclaim, appreciation, support, plaudits, cheering, laudation, raves, approval, approbation, cheer, cheers, praise, commendation, accolade, bouquets, hand, tribute, big hand, kudos, shouting, extolment, congratulations, testimonial, laurels, salutes, roar, standing ovation, pat on the back, round of applause, hurrah, bravo, homage, admiration, honor, hurray, honour, cry, shout, whoop, clamour, hosanna, alleluia, shriek, clamor, adulation, compliment, panegyric … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “During the intense concert, the clapping of the audience became a rhythmic accompaniment to the music.”
clap
  1. (slang, with "the") Gonorrhea.
  2. Synonyms:
      3. bang, crash, boom, crack, pop, smash, report, blast, slam, snap, whump, whack, thunderclap, thwack, thunder, whomp, pat, strike, tap, burst, roar, rumble, explosion, peal, reverberation, wham, clash, detonation, rumbling, sound, shot, clang, din, resounding, thump, thud, booming, echo, smack, barrage, noise, roll, crashing, pounding, roaring, growl, grumble, knock, discharge, clunk … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “Just as I was about to power up the mower, there was a clap of thunder and the rain began to fall.”
      “He received a huge clap from the crowd when he finished the race.”
      “Old Red was congratulating his student with a clap on the back when a heartstopping shriek pierced the morning air.”
clapperboards
  1. plural of clapperboard
  2. Synonyms:
      3. board, clapboard, clappers, clapsticks, markers, slates
clapalongs
  1. plural of clapalong
clapboards
  1. plural of clapboard
  2. Synonyms:
      3. clapperboards, boards, clappers, clapsticks, markers, slates, sticks
  3. Examples:
      4. “We passed one simple building after another, made of teak or covered with clapboards painted in pastel blue, yellow, peach or mint green.”
      “White-painted cedar clapboards cover its gabled forms, which are topped by classic standing-seam metal roofs.”
      “She reminded me of one of those beauties who sometimes emerge from hard country clapboards or trash-strewn double-wides.”
clapsticks
  1. plural of clapstick
  2. Synonyms:
      3. clappers, musicsticks, clapboard, slates, clapperboards, markers, board
clappings
  1. plural of clapping
  2. Synonyms:
      3. applause, ovations, acclamation, acclaim, appreciation, support, cheerings, laudations, approval, approbation, cheer, hands, accolades, commendation, praise, kudos, standing ovations, rounds of applause, extolments, pats on the back, shoutings, testimonials, tribute, roars, bravos, panegyrics, flattery, honor, clamour, handclapping, shouts, hosannas, shrieks, cries, welcomes, hollers, adulations, eulogiums, bays, homage, whoops, hurrahs, huzzas, alleluias, huzzahs, honour, eulogies, compliments, encomiums, admiration … more
claptraps
  1. plural of claptrap
  2. Synonyms:
      3. gibberishes, hogwash, nonsenses, baloneys, drivel, garbage, malarkey, poppycocks, balderdash, blather, codswallop, crocks, dribbles, phooey, piffle, twaddles, wacks, boloneys, bulldust, bunks, bunkums, fiddlesticks, follies, hokums, hooey, humbugs, rubbish, toshes, trashes, tripes, waffles, applesauce, bombasts, bulls, crapola, eyewashes, flapdoodles, guff, horsefeathers, moonshines, palavers, rots, balls, blahs, foolishnesses, fudges, gammons, hokeypokey, jazz, malarkies … more
clapcakes
  1. plural of clapcake
  2. Synonyms:
      3. clapbread
clappers
  1. plural of clapper
  2. Synonyms:
      3. bells, chimes, carillon, glockenspiel, gongs, knells, peals, tocsins, tolls, alarms, alerts, buzzers, buzzes, curfews, dingers, doorbells, ringers, signals, sirens, tintinnabula, warnings, ding-dongs, alarm bells, church bells, sleigh bells … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “It was really good money and we just used to go like the clappers to get the job done as quickly as possible.”
      “I have now been driving this Kia around for about five days and have discovered that it goes like the clappers.”
      “Then she'll drive like the clappers and be so charming when she gets there that everyone forgives her.”
claps
  1. plural of clap
  2. Synonyms:
      3. bangs, crashes, booms, crack, pop, smashes, reports, blasts, slam, snap, whumps, whacks, thunderclaps, thwacks, thunder, whomps, pats, strikes, taps, bursts, peals, explosions, whams, roars, rumbles, detonations, clashes, reverberation, thuds, sound, thumps, clonks, poundings, smacks, dins, shots, clangs, rumblings, knocks, noise, resoundings, echoes, boomings, clunks, rolls, barrages, banging, grumbles, clomps, bumps … more
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