Talk:the clap

the clap
We already have this definition at clap:. SemperBlotto 08:38, 11 October 2011 (UTC)

It is idiomatic. It almost is always used with both words. clap is an alternate form of "the clap". It is used as "the clap" in print, books, journals, even in quotations in those written published works. If you didn't have this definition at "the clap" and wanted to know what those writers were talking about you would think they were pressing their hands together fast, not that you had a genital infection. This is a very common colloquialism that we should keepAcdcrocks 09:41, 11 October 2011 (UTC)
 * Speedy delete, bad entry title, add to clap if it isn't already there. --Mglovesfun (talk) 10:11, 11 October 2011 (UTC)
 * Addendum, keep the redirect. Mglovesfun (talk) 06:42, 12 October 2011 (UTC)
 * It's not already there. And I didn't invent it. It's called "the clap" in all the citations. Have a look at them.Acdcrocks 10:36, 11 October 2011 (UTC)
 * Delete. Were there no entry for [[the clap]], search would yield [[clap]] at the top of the search list. No user would fail to find the entry unless they were unfamiliar with our search, which is not very dissimilar to other searches at websites. It would also be possible to have a redirect to [[clap]] from [[the clap]]. DCDuring TALK 11:52, 11 October 2011 (UTC)
 * Hard redirect. &#x200b;—msh210℠ (talk) 17:48, 11 October 2011 (UTC)
 * See also (not many results, but some, and that's just for that particular phrase. I think the sense should have a  or similar). &#x200b;—msh210℠ (talk) 18:34, 11 October 2011 (UTC)
 * I'm down the with hard redirect and the chiefly tag, if that's the format, but the term is exactly that chiefly "the clap" and not just "clap" which is rare. Having to look for just clap when you are looking for "the clap" could confuse someone, not you are I who know what it is but someone ignorant of the issue enough to need to look it up and taking into account the sensitivity of the term itself an exactingness would better serve the reader.Acdcrocks 22:06, 11 October 2011 (UTC)


 * Keep. There are lots of meanings of "clap" but only one for "the clap". bd2412 T 19:48, 20 October 2011 (UTC)
 * Delete. < class="latinx" >Ƿidsiþ 20:00, 20 October 2011 (UTC)

deleted -- Liliana • 01:22, 21 October 2011 (UTC)