Word.ws English Dictionary

clap cold

clap cold adjective: stone cold (in temperature).

Adjective

clap cold (not comparable)

  1. (UK, dialectal) Stone cold (in temperature).
    • What little food I received was a disgusting mess, and the tea was clap cold.2015, Robert Richardson, The Incoming Tide, page 136

Questions about clap cold

What does clap cold mean?
Clap cold means stone cold (in temperature).
What part of speech is clap cold?
Clap cold is an adjective.

Words near clap cold in the dictionary

  1. Clanwilliam cypresses
  2. Clanwilliam-Erickson
  3. clap
  4. clap back
  5. clap cheeks
  6. clap cold
  7. clap eyes on
  8. clap in
  9. clap in, clap out
  10. clap net
  11. clap nets

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: clap cold (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “clap cold.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/clap_cold. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.