clapped
adj.adj. very old, broken, or in bad condition. You use this to describe things like cars or buildings that look like they are falling apart.
adj. worn out, exhausted, or in a state of advanced disrepair. Often used in British English to describe machinery or vehicles that have reached the end of their useful life.
He drives a clapped out old car.
The landlord refused to replace the clapped boiler even though it made a loud banging noise every night.
After twenty years of heavy use in the factory, the machinery was completely clapped and required constant maintenance just to keep the production line moving.
Commonly appears in the phrasal adjective form 'clapped out'. Often follows a linking verb like 'is' or 'looks'.
The car clapped yesterday.The car is clapped.In this slang sense, the word is an adjective describing a state, not a verb describing an action.