clappers

clap·per  (klpr)

n.

1. One who applauds.

2. The tongue of a bell.

3. Slang The tongue of a garrulous person.

4. clappers Two flat pieces of wood held between the fingers and struck together rhythmically.

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

clappers - a percussion instrument consisting of a pair of hollow pieces of wood or bone (usually held between the thumb and fingers) that are made to click together (as by Spanish dancers) in rhythm with the dance bones, castanets, finger cymbals percussion instrument, percussive instrument - a musical instrument in which the sound is produced by one object striking another plural, plural form - the form of a word that is used to denote more than one