--- title: "How to pronounce \"clap back\" in English | SayItVid" description: "Learn how to say \"clap back\" correctly. Watch real-life video examples and master your English pronunciation with SayItVid." image: "https://img.youtube.com/vi/doGu7P-meFk/hqdefault.jpg" url: "https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/clap-back" --- # How to pronounce "clap back" in English ## Pronunciation & Phonetics - **IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet)**: `/klæpbæk/` - **Native Audio Recording**: [Listen to Audio Clip](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/7/70/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-clapback.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-clapback.wav.mp3) - **Syllable Breakdown**: **clap·back** - **Parts of Speech**: noun - **NOUN**: An exercise where the pupil is instructed to repeat a previously played rhythm by clapping. - **NOUN**: A witty or sarcastic retort. - *Example*: "While these bits of online affirmation are addicting, so too are the online takedowns, the clapbacks, the snark." ## Real-Life Native Speaker Examples (9 Video Clips) Listen to native speakers pronounce "clap back" in real conversation: ### Example 1 > "I think it's my prerogative to wear my face like that, potentially for 24 hours, maybe more. So that's my clap back at people who will be like, smile, you would look better. Yeah, there's a lot of pressure against female authenticity sometimes." - **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 11:28](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=doGu7P-meFk&t=688s) ### Example 2 > "long overdue clap back to woke mania, a return to common sense being led by young creatives in a New York micro neighborhood" - **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 14:10](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Weht-1xja0A&t=850s) ### Example 3 > "you know you are uncontrollably angry but uh he is righteously indignant okay um you have a thin skin they clap back right so once you kind of realize that these words have just been chosen in such a way as to delegitimize their Target and they all went vertical in 2013 and they were suddenly targeted" - **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 395:13](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VeH7qKZr0WI&t=23713s) ### Example 4 > "And so we've got to get this information digitized so that you can clap back against these negative stories." - **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 20:47](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6h4Y05aLQyA&t=1247s) ### Example 5 > "So, I'll leave the clap back to you guys because I can't text that fast, but we'll get the information out there so that you can have access to it." - **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 21:08](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6h4Y05aLQyA&t=1268s) ### Example 6 > "What I love about the youth culture is somebody puts out a fact, you guys clap back so fast with all kinds of facts and links" - **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 20:37](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6h4Y05aLQyA&t=1237s) ### Example 7 > "He's so kind and decent, and at some point that doesn't work with this situation that we found ourselves in with this administration. So the mirror, the clap back, the humor. It's giving people hope." - **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 19:51](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-3YXlh2Ies&t=1191s) ### Example 8 > "and I guess maybe I was immature for a long time. I should have realized this at a way earlier age than I did, but you do start to consider others. Um, and and I'm the same as you, mate. I'll read a comment about me on Twitter and I will clap back and I still go back to them now and fees there going, "What are you doing?" And I'm like, "Fuck him." Like I just like that's a bit of my dad as well, like and I'll just I'll I'll spend hours arguing with football" - **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 50:34](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1DV6I5hK6ro&t=3034s) ### Example 9 > "But one thing, and like I said, you know him well, none of the noise ever creeps in, ever. Like I've, I call him and I said, okay, I think we're gonna clap back at this, we're gonna respond to that. He said, oh no you're not. I was like, but why?" - **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 38:04](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBzMQEwL7S8&t=2284s) ## Related Words & Synonyms - **Nearby Vocabulary**: [clap](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/clap), [back](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/back) ## Frequently Asked Questions ### How do you pronounce "clap back" correctly? "clap back" is pronounced `/klæpbæk/`. Syllable breakdown: **clap·back**. ### What does "clap back" mean in context? An exercise where the pupil is instructed to repeat a previously played rhythm by clapping. ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "WebPage", "@id": "https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/clap-back#webpage", "url": "https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/clap-back", "name": "How to pronounce \"clap back\" in English | SayItVid", "description": "Learn how to say \"clap back\" correctly. 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