clipper-clapperadj.
Of the nature of a clapper that goes quickly.
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1837–40 T. C. Haliburton Clockmaker (1862) 38 Half a thousand little clipper-clapper tongues.
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adj.1837- to give one
- to give one a back-cap
- to give one a backcap
- to give one a chill
- to give one a for instance
- to give one a gleek
- to give one a slampant
- to give one an inkling
- to give one an inkling of something
- to give one as good as he brings or one gets
- to give one fifteen, etc, and a bisque
- to give one furiously to think
- to give one his kale through the reek
- to give one his own or his due
- to give one one's revenge
- to give one revenge
- to hit cross one over the thumbs
- to hit for six
- to hit for the cycle
- to hit home
- to hit in
- to hit in the eye
- to hit in the eyes
- to hit in the teeth with
- to hit it