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clap on en · VERB
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(transitive) To temporarily add something to an existing part, especially to add an additional sail to take advantage of a fair wind.
We spring out of our berths, clap on a monkey-jacket and south-wester, and tumble up the ladder.
1840, R[ichard] H[enry] D[ana], Jr., “CHAPTER XXXV”, in Two Years before the Mast. […] (Harper’s Family Library; no. CVI), New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers […], →OCLC:
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(transitive) To encourage by (or as if by) applauding.
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(UK, colloquial) To talk at tedious length; to whinge.
[…] clapping on about having to live on a small income because of her son's lack of ambition.
2020, Dorothy Cannell, Murder at Mullings:
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(US, dated, slang) To decide to make a concerted effort to do something; to operate with dedication and vigor.
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