clap cold

adjective

Stone cold (in temperature).

Meanings

adjectiveclap cold (not comparable)
  1. UKdialectalnot comparableStone 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
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