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"clap over" is a valid phrase in written English.
It means to applaud or clap in support of someone or something. It can be used in a variety of situations, such as when showing appreciation for a performance, celebrating a victory, or expressing agreement or approval. Example: The audience couldn't help but clap over the incredible guitar solo at the end of the show.
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Slow clap over here.
Never clap over the spine or kidney areas.
Ask your partner to clap over your pectoral muscles quickly and firmly.
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It was the craziest day ever because I think what's not in it is the chronic masturbator when we're clapping over by the couch.
They cried and gave Sharpton a standing ovation, then cried and clapped all over again when Jackson's fellow survivor of childhood stardom, Brooke Shields, told the audience about Jackson's favourite song – Smile, from the Charlie Chaplin film Modern Times – and said they all needed, as the song had it, to "smile though your heart is breaking".
Josie whooped again, clapping over her head.
Then comes the pulse, a layered repetition of three hand claps over two heartbeats.
When she glanced into the lounge, her shock at the sight of the chairs thrown about was as extreme as a hand clapped over her mouth from behind.
Sometimes the dancing resembles a stadium wave, and sometimes it feels more like Broadway, with thousands of people shaking first their right fist, then their left fist, then clapping over their head in unison while singing.
Her move is minimalist avant R&B, a snatch of Soulja Boy layered on rapid-fire drum claps, over which she snarls at us and her assembled girl gang that she ain't sorry: don't care, don't think about him, have a good time, make him beg.
"Woman With an Umbrella," which derived from a news photograph of Jacqueline Kennedy weeping after her husband was shot, her hand clapped over her mouth in shock, is blank on the left side of the canvas, mimicking the layout of the magazine page Mr. Richter was looking at.
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