clapped-out

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clapped′-out′

adj. Brit. Informal.

worn-out; exhausted.

[1945–50]

Translations

clapped-out

[ˌklæptˈaʊt] ADJ (Brit) [car, bus etc] → desvencijado; [person] → para el arrastre

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

clapped-out

adj attr, clapped out

adj pred (inf) → klapprig; a clapped-out old car → ein klappriges Auto, eine alte Klapperkiste (inf); I feel really clapped out (Brit inf) → ich bin total geschafft (inf)

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

clapped-out

[ˈklæptˌaʊt] adj (fam) → malridotto/a

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

References in periodicals archive ?

"Aeron is much more superstitious and was more worried about what she said!" Having previously travelled from the peaks of the Andes to the glaciers of Scandinavia, Wil and Aeron this time dusted off their "clapped-out" campervan and headed 4,000 miles to a country which shares its borders with five other countries.

Travellers' date with the 'Queen of the Gypsies'

The clapped-out vehicle was used to ferry pilots to and from the mess and the aerodrome, with as many as 10 people at a time crammed inside Hitler's interior.

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It does seem odd however that you come off the newly-built bypass onto an old, somewhat clapped-out stretch to rejoin the main road.

Bypassed

The things that made the late Nico a fascination - rather than the things that made her a sad, clapped-out bore - spring alive and anew in Cate's work.

ALBUMS

TEENAGERS with a magic touch for mechanics were today pleading with Worcestershire motorists to donate their clapped-out cars for charity.

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Those of us who live up here and take over twice that time to get to the capital on clapped-out tracks and overcrowded trains must feel proud.

Get To Get

It's the last in the current series, but Tim Westwood and the team are determined to go out in blinging style by transforming another clapped-out old banger.

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He was later seen driving a clapped-out Mercedes into Tynemouth Priory, and then perhaps he was off to pick up Posh and head for Freddy's for tea?

Becks back in the Toon

IN a bizarre survey, estate agents are claiming that a clapped-out ruin parked in your driveway (or your neighbour's) will reduce the selling price of your house by an average of 5.5 per cent, or ten grand off the average UK home.

Quentin Willson: Estate Agents

The former restaurateur criticised the quality of the meat, saying it tasted as if it come from 'a clapped-out cow.'

Egon Ronay on why burgers are inedible

Their 15 minutes of fame are up...and A Life Of Grime - stick this clapped-out garbage in the bin bag of history before they do a special on Spencer's underwear.