One who claps; a person who applauds by clapping the hands. / An object so suspended inside a bell that it may hit the bell and cause it to ring; a clanger or tongue.

(transitive) To ring a bell by pulling a rope attached to the clapper. / To make a repetitive clapping sound; to clatter. / Of birds, to repeatedly strike the mandibles together.

(obsolete) A rabbit burrow.

plural of clapper

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of clapper

simple past tense and past participle of clapper

present participle of clapper

plural of Clapper

A surname.

(simile, UK, informal) Very hard or very rapidly.