Meanings
present singular third person claps cheeks · participle present clapping cheeks · participle past clapped cheeks · past clapped cheeks · alternative clap someone's cheeks · alternative get one's cheeks clapped
- euphemisticpossiblyslangvulgarTo have sex or have sex with.
They've been getting together secretly at night to clap cheeks.
3 more examples
He likes to come by every now and then so he can clap her cheeks.
She won't admit that she goes out every weekend just to get her cheeks clapped.
I pull’d out my purſe of five hundred pounds, / I pour’d them out on the table; / This glitt’ring ſight they no ſooner beheld, / Than they began to ſnigle and gigle; / And turning me round, would ſit in my lap, / And ſmerking and laughing, my cheeks they would clap; / I told them that I would have no more of that, / It was it that brought me to limbo.
c. 1782, “The Spendthrift clap't into Limbo”, in Five Exccllent New Songs, [Edinburgh?]: Entered According to Order, page 5Synonyms: fuck
- euphemisticpossiblyslangvulgarTo twerk.
Synonyms & antonyms
verbTo have sex or have sex with.
Origin
From the sound that sex in rear-entry position produces, when hips collide with buttocks reiteratively and its repetitive contact which can both be seen as analogous to clapping.
Full word history & related roots →Cite this entry
clap cheeks. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/clap%20cheeks
“clap cheeks.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/clap%20cheeks. Accessed November 2, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “clap cheeks,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/clap%20cheeks.
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