clapped out

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clapped out

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Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, slang Exhausted, worn out. Accusations of letting a service run down deliberately will always be made if, to quote one local case, a mostly empty mid-day train continues to run, while in the same service an early morning train is discontinued, causing: (a) six men to lose their jobs; (b) four men to go on to permanent night s

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Español	destartalado, desvencijado

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@misc{clapped_out_2026,
  title = {clapped out},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/clapped%20out},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}