clapped-out ADJ Brit inf
1. clapped-out (worn out):
2. clapped-out (tired):
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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 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 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 He reasoned that instead of just criticising farmers for our increasing number of clapped-out rivers and streams, trout should share the blame.
www.odt.co.nz They would rather stand than put up with the other slow, clapped-out trains.
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