ADJECTIVE
- worn from age or heavy use and no longer able to operate (of cars or machines or people)
How To Use clapped out In A Sentence
- Another hot day - work's always a mare because the air conditioning's clapped out and that part of town stinks.
- The second hardest thing is to learn is to avoid tired old clapped out baseball metaphors.
- The children clapped out a regular time while the teacher played the tune.
- Alas, visions of liveried footmen and Royal Doulton soon vanished as we pulled into the driveway of Clapped Out Estates, and the effusive greetings of a red-nosed investment banker dressed in plus fours and carpet slippers.
- And the mix of cars --- Beemers and Volvos nose to bumper with clapped out Datsuns --- suggests that the area is `coming up. RESCUING ROSE
- The students clapped out a regular time while the teacher played the tune.
- I want to be a writer, to make my living at it, earn a crust doing something I love rather than cooler kinging it through to a clapped out retirement, stomach clenched in anger at every slap of the baseball in the mitt as I was serving my time.
- It is shocking that after so many crises staff are still using clapped out and discredited systems and keeping each other in the dark. The Sun
- The old bomb the team policing unit gets around in was so clapped out and such a dunger, the front seat had snapped.
- It was a red, somewhat clapped out P reg small saloon.
