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What is "clapped-out"

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
clapped-out
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Of course the carpet's a mess - all we've got is a clapped-out old vacuum cleaner.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ An old van and a couple of clapped-out motor bikes, and they let them get away.
▪ How do you turn a clapped-out Lada into a Mercedes while driving down the motorway?
▪ Making Out sounds most unpromising - about a group of women workers in a clapped-out Manchester electronics factory.
▪ On our first call, from a dreadlocked Rastaman, we are faced with a clapped-out Mini Clubman.

Usage examples of "clapped-out".

You surely can't expect your President to judder 'his way down to the Caribbean in a clapped-out DCS?

Above town to the south were the clapped-out shacks where the Company housed its miners.

A car drew up outside, and a door banged, before Rupert said: 'This is the top yard in the country and you expect me to train some clapped-out dinosaur for nothing and pay its entry fees?

I think you'll like your orders-they get you to Avalon just as soon as you can coax this clapped-out wreck to fly you there.

Felt like I was riding home, riding home in the back of a clapped-out Mr Whipping van, with a golden feather in one hand, Beetle's gun in the other, two bullets left.

He shorted me on the machine tools, all clapped-out models from the first batches Cuddy did up.