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clappers

[ UK /klˈæpəz/ ]
NOUN
  1. (used in the plural) 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

How To Use clappers In A Sentence

  • Presented with a series of tricky problems, the Scud decided to play safe and run like the clappers, and just belt the ball for all he was worth.
  • I had my first good bite, a two inch lift then the indicator dropping like the clappers on a slack line.
  • Male speaker Inside you are going like the clappers because you are nervous and the tension is building up.
  • But it's the gutbucket grooves supplied by Rochfords drums and bassist Tom Herbert that really get you in the chest, going like the clappers on ‘Your Eyes The Sea’ while the horns give it both barrels.
  • The primary occupant, originally installed on a green bier, was arrayed like a dancer, with bell-like ornaments made of shells and "clappers" made of canine teeth. PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories
  • Their worships, as he called them, were about a score of fusty crack-ropes and gallow-clappers, or rather more, all posted before a bar, and staring at each other like so many dead pigs. Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
  • Perhaps it was a claque: a paid band of willing clappers.
  • Accordingly, of the subway bury difficult question, nobody dare clappers, bemused all the time decision - making process.
  • When the gong and clappers on a doorbell unit or the plungers on a mechanical chime unit get dirty and dusty, dip a cotton swab in alcohol to clean them.
  • ~~Attach "clappers" to all the lights in the dungeon just before a paddling Naysayers Suck
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