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THE CLAP

Specialty Definition: THE CLAP

DomainDefinition

Multilingual Slang

German (Tripper, der). (references)

Slang

Gonorrhea. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Usage: THE CLAP

DomainUsage

Screenplays

Avoid the clap, Jimmy Dugan! (A League of Their Own; writing credit: Kim Wilson; Kelly Candaele)

I'd rather have a case of the clap than a case of this wine. (Cousins; writing credit: Stephen Metcalfe)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: THE CLAP

DomainTitle

Books

  • Chicago's War on Syphilis, 1937-1940: The Times, the Trib, and the Clap Doctor (reference)

  • The Long March and In the Clap Shack (2 Books in 1) (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: THE CLAP

Language Translations for "THE CLAP"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Manx

  

yn chiass (gonorrhoea). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ethay apclay

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: THE CLAP

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: chaplet.

Words within the letters "a-c-e-h-l-p-t"

-1 letter: caplet, chalet, chapel, hepcat, placet, pleach, thecal.

-2 letters: aleph, chape, chapt, cheap, cheat, chela, clapt, cleat, clept, eclat, epact, latch, lathe, leach, leapt, lepta, letch, palet, patch, peach, petal, place, plate, pleat, tache, teach, tepal, theca.

-3 letters: ache, alec, cape, caph, cate, celt, chap, chat, clap, each, eath, epha, etch, haet, hale, halt.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-e-h-l-p-t"
 

+1 letter: chaplets, planchet, potlache.

 

+2 letters: caliphate, catchpole, chapleted, petechial, planchets, potlaches.

 

+3 letters: alphabetic, antechapel, apothecial, archetypal, birthplace, caliphates, catchpoles, grapholect, heptachlor, pathetical, philatelic, phlegmatic, phylactery, planchette, polychaete, potlatched, potlatches, preethical, telepathic.

 

+4 letters: antechapels, aphetically, autocephaly, birthplaces, cephalothin, epithalamic, epithetical, feldspathic, grapholects, heptachlors, hypocentral, lycanthrope, myelopathic, patchoulies, perchlorate, perithecial, planchettes, polychaetes, prophetical, spaceflight, spirochetal, telegraphic, thunderclap.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Usage: Modern
2. Usage: Commercial
3. Translations: Modern
4. Anagrams
5. Bibliography


  

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