Crossword Clue: Applaud with one's fingers
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Quick Answer List
- acclaim (7 letters)
- acclaimed (9 letters)
- applauding (10 letters)
- applause (8 letters)
- clap (4 letters)
- clapping (8 letters)
- hail (4 letters)
- raise (5 letters)
- ruff (4 letters)
- clapper (7 letters)
- ante (4 letters)
- bonfire (7 letters)
- flap (4 letters)
- flaps (5 letters)
- glad hand (9 letters)
- gun (3 letters)
- guns (4 letters)
- handclap (8 letters)
- handclasp (9 letters)
- handing (7 letters)
Detailed Explanations
acclaim (7 letters)
Definition:
- v (archaic, transitive) To shout; to call out.
- v (transitive) To express great approval (for).
- v (transitive, rare) To salute or praise with great approval; to compliment; to applaud; to welcome enthusiastically.
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acclaimed (9 letters)
Definition:
adj Greatly praised or lauded, revered, highly respected.
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applauding (10 letters)
Definition:
n applause
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applause (8 letters)
Definition:
n The act of applauding; approbation and praise publicly expressed by the clapping of hands, stamping or tapping of the feet, acclamation, huzzas, or other means; marked commendation.
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clap (4 letters)
Definition:
- n The act of striking the palms of the hands, or any two surfaces, together.
- n The explosive sound of thunder.
- n Any loud, sudden, explosive sound made by striking hard surfaces together, or resembling such a sound.
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clapping (8 letters)
Definition:
n The action by which someone or something claps.
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hail (4 letters)
Definition:
- n (meteorology, uncountable) Balls or pieces of ice falling as precipitation, often in connection with a thunderstorm.
- n (meteorology, countable) An occurrence of this type of precipitation; a hailstorm.
- n (countable, by extension) A rapid, intense barrage by a large number of projectiles or other objects.
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raise (5 letters)
Definition:
- v (physical) To cause to rise; to lift or elevate.
- v To form by the accumulation of materials or constituent parts; to build up; to erect.
- v To cause something to come to the surface of water.
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ruff (4 letters)
Definition:
- n A circular frill or ruffle on a garment, especially a starched, fluted frill at the neck in Elizabethan and Jacobean England (1560s–1620s).
- n Anything formed with plaits or flutings like a frill.
- n Senses relating to animals.
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clapper (7 letters)
Definition:
- n One who claps; a person who applauds by clapping the hands.
- n An object so suspended inside a bell that it may hit the bell and cause it to ring; a clanger or tongue.
- n A wooden mechanical device used as a scarecrow; bird-scaring rattle, a wind-rattle or a wind-clapper.
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ante (4 letters)
Definition:
- n A price or cost, as in up the ante.
- n (poker) In poker and other games, the contribution made by all players to the pot before dealing the cards.
- v To pay the ante in poker. Often used as ante up.
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bonfire (7 letters)
Definition:
- n A large, controlled outdoor fire lit to celebrate something or as a signal.
- n A fire lit outdoors to burn unwanted items; originally (historical), heretics or other offenders, or banned books; now, generally agricultural or garden waste, or rubbish.
- n (figuratively) Something like a bonfire (sense 1 or 2) in heat, destructiveness, ferocity, etc.
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flap (4 letters)
Definition:
- n Anything broad and flexible that hangs loose, or that is attached by one side or end and is easily moved.
- n A hinged leaf.
- n (aviation) A hinged surface on the trailing edge of the wings of an aeroplane, used to increase lift and drag.
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flaps (5 letters)
Definition:
n (farriery, archaic) A disease in the mouths of horses involving inflammation in the cheeks or lips.
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glad hand (9 letters)
Definition:
- n A warm welcome offered to a guest by a host.
- n A coupling device used on semi-trailer trucks for attaching air brake lines from the tractor to the trailer.
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gun (3 letters)
Definition:
- n A device for projecting a hard object very forcefully; a firearm or cannon.
- n A very portable, short firearm, for hand use, which fires bullets or projectiles, such as a handgun, revolver, pistol, or Derringer.
- n A less portable, long firearm that fires bullets or projectiles; a rifle, either manual, automatic or semi-automatic; a flintlock, musket or shotgun.
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guns (4 letters)
Definition:
n (bodybuilding, slang) Well-developed muscles of the upper arm, especially the biceps and triceps.
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handclap (8 letters)
Definition:
n A single clap of the hands
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handclasp (9 letters)
Definition:
n A handshake.
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handing (7 letters)
Definition:
n The act by which something is handed to somebody.
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