clapped-out in the Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary

Translations for clapped-out in the English»French Dictionary

clapped-out [Am] ADJ inf

clapped-out

pourri

clapped-out

mort inf

clapped-out

foutu sl

clapped-out

complètement dépassé

clapped-out

sur les genoux

clapped-out

claqué

clapped-out (exhausted)

crevé inf

clapped-out (past it)

fichu inf

clapped-out (past it)

fini

Translations for clapped-out in the French»English Dictionary

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déglingué (déglinguée) ascenseur, vélo, voiture

clapped out Brit inf

clapped-out in the PONS Dictionary

Translations for clapped-out in the English»French Dictionary

clapped-out ADJ Brit, Aus inf (old)

clapped-out

crevé(e)

Monolingual examples (not verified by PONS Editors)

English

Tomorrow he'll sit at his desk and wait for his next improbable muse to pull up in some clapped-out vehicle.

www.listener.co.nz

In addition to all this, their massive production -- sometimes in rather clapped-out factories -- has created huge air pollution problems.

www.abc.net.au

Telly bosses are in talks with the controversial campmate to film a series based around the restoration of her clapped-out stately home.

www.irishmirror.ie

Their equipment budget has also been reduced to such an extent that clapped-out patrol cars are not being replaced.

www.irishmirror.ie

We spend the afternoon of our wedding anniversary (and my birthday) by the side of a road with our clapped-out car waiting to be picked up by a recovery vehicle.

www.telegraph.co.uk

This was the land of choked thoroughfares and magnificent old palaces, of bearded sadhus and bedi-smoking beggars, of rattling trains and clapped-out buses, was it not?

www.thehindu.com

Eighty years on it remains popular with audiences, a hardy perennial which has doubtless saved the bacon of many clapped-out theatre producers.

www.telegraph.co.uk

Isn't it a rather wonderful organisation for giving retired, clapped-out ex-premiers some real executive power?

www.europarl.europa.eu

Paradoxically, his animals remain unknowable not because they're in the wilderness but because they're in captivity, in the cramped, clapped-out cages of old, outmoded zoos.

www.winnipegfreepress.com

The clapped-out car emerged from the water today - and park officers reported it to police in case it amounts to criminal evidence.

www.standard.co.uk