Phrase guide
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Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
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noun
A form of clapping in which audience members clap slowly, with long intervals between claps, as a form of heckling and to demonstrate that they disapprove of a performer, speaker, etc.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
A form of applause (especially used in films for dramatic effect) that slowly crescendoes from one person's clapping to a crowd's.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: broadcasting, film, media, television
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History
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