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clap (klap) popular name for gonorrhea.
clap (klp)
n.
Gonorrhea. Often used with the.
clap.
See gonorrhea .
Clap
A sobriquet for Neisseria gonorrhoeae infection
clap [klap]
a slang term used by patients to refer to gonorrhea.
clap
STD Sobriquet for N gonorrhoeae infection. See Gonorrhea.
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If they say it's going to a fabulous summer and you've rushed out and bought garden furniture, a barbecue and booked two weeks in Blackpool on the strength of it, they should be clapped in irons and flung in a dungeon.
Here's an idea. In keeping [...] by Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland)
HEAD bowed, and clapped in irons, the "accused" was frog marched up the steep steps of the castle Keep by two police officers.
Locked up for stroke awareness by Evening Chronicle (Newcastle, England)
They've given up the ghost on imposing their values on a country where a chap is beaten up and clapped in irons by the authorities for merely throwing his Hush Puppies at a callous lunatic responsible for the killing of hundreds of thousands of innocent civilians.
You'll be going down in history Darling by Daily Post (Liverpool, England)
 
 
 
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