clapped out

1. 1.

   worn from age or heavy use and no longer able to operate (of cars or machines or people)

   Similarworn

   United Kingdom

Questions about clapped out

What does clapped out mean?

clapped out means "worn from age or heavy use and no longer able to operate (of cars or machines or people)".

Is clapped out a common word?

clapped out is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.