Clap may refer to:
- Clapping, producing sound for applause or other purposes
- Gonorrhea, a venereal disease (often referred to as "the clap")
- Child Labour Action Programme
- Clap skate, type of ice skate used in speed skating
- "Clap", an instrumental song by Yes from The Yes Album
- The Clapper, a gadget that using a sound activated switch sensitive to clapping
- See also
- People
- Margaret Clap or Mother Clap (died c. 1726), Keeper of a homosexual brothel in London, England
- Thomas Clap or Thomas Clapp (1703–1767), President of Yale College
- Clapp (disambiguation)
Famous quotes containing the word clap:
“You can’t clap with only one hand.”
—Chinese proverb.
“The Danaan children laugh, in cradles of wrought gold,
And clap their hands together, and half close their eyes,
For they will ride the North when the ger-eagle flies,
With heavy whitening wings, and a heart fallen cold....”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
“In matter of commerce the fault of the Dutch
Is offering too little and asking too much.
The French are with equal advantage content,
So we clap on Dutch bottoms just twenty per cent.”
—George Canning (1770–1827)