Synonyms:
bang, clap, eruption, blast, bam
Meaning: a sudden very loud noise
verb
meaning of the word
Synonyms:
clap
Meaning: put quickly or forcibly; "The judge clapped him in jail"
Synonyms:
clap
Meaning: cause to strike the air in flight; "The big bird clapped its wings"
Synonyms:
applaud, clap, spat, acclaim
Meaning: clap one's hands or shout after performances to indicate approval
Synonyms:
clap, spat
Meaning: clap one's hands together; "The children were clapping to the music"
Usage examples
This plague was like a clap of thunder out of a clear sky to us.
"O, delightful!" said Rebecca, going to clap her hands; but she recollected herself, and paused, like a modest creature, as she was.
Don't you know that if I stamped with my foot all Suleiman-bin-Daoud's Palace and this garden here would immediately vanish in a clap of thunder.'
Sometimes the women would cease beating the skin bags to clap their hands and strike their sides, yelling the words of the corroboree song, as the painted figures, like fiends and skeletons, danced before the row of fires.
'Slaves,' said Suleiman-bin-Daoud, 'when this gentleman on my finger' (that was where the impudent Butterfly was sitting) 'stamps his left front forefoot you will make my Palace and these gardens disappear in a clap of thunder.