An instance of slow, rhythmic clapping by an audience as a sign of displeasure or impatience.
慢速鼓掌（观众表示不悦或不耐烦的有节奏鼓掌）
they were giving the slow handclap to the end of the procession
Example sentencesExamples
A small far right group attempted a counter - demonstration, but slunk away to jeers and slow handclaps from the crowd.
A widely expected walkout by activists wearing anti-war T-shirts did not materialise, the devastating slow handclap failed to start.
Regent is receiving the equivalent of a slow handclap in the City.
A slow handclap greeted his claims that police training colleges had accepted more recruits and standards had been maintained.
Ever the showman, Warne responded to a slow handclap from the crowd - unhappy at the time he was taking to bowl his overs - by cupping his hand to his ear.
‘They're litigious and they slow handclap,’ he says mischievously.
At one point the crowd even broke into a slow handclap, to which Lawrence responded by urging the faithful for greater support.
There have been wobbles before: the slow handclap from the Women's Institute, the fuel protesters and sundry ambushes in hospital foyers.
Dickon Jones paused long enough to give her a slow handclap.
There were jeers, heckles, slow handclaps and delegates held up giant letters that spelt out the word ‘Strike‘.
The prime minister famously received a slow handclap during an ill-judged talk to the WI in June 2000.
Restiveness begins to happen, including something I never saw before at a gig: a slow handclap.
The very best Mr Blunkett could hope for, it seemed, was a repeat of the slow handclap that greeted the politician at last year's conference.
Boos, jeers, cheers and slow handclaps greet the candidates as they each deliver their parting shots.
Their reporting of the Women's Institute debacle, in which Blair was heckled and given a slow handclap reception, did not disappoint him, he says.
One of the women on the flight got on the stairs and led us all in the slow handclap.
Leaping on to his chair and launching a torrential tirade, the heckler seemed unstoppable, until a staunch staff member of the party newspaper Labour Weekly set off a slow handclap which drowned him out.
There are physical assaults and verbal abuse, they are called ‘lazy sluts’ and get slow handclaps from people in queues.
He was handed a microphone and started chanting to the ancestors, with the assembled healers kneeling around him, providing first a slow handclap, then a chorus line at intervals.
Currie had been welcomed back to a slow handclap having chosen to return to the dressing room at half time.