clapped-out adj.
精疲力竭的, <英俚>(物)毁环了的破烂的
- John Conklin's sets give us four different views of the bar and backroom of Harry Hope's clapped-out rooming house in dark shades of grey, brown and green, the chairs and tables as tatty and mismatched as their occupants.
- Instead, around the perimeter of the track, there is an unbroken corrall of clapped-out cars full of the young. From time to time a door opens and a bedraggled teenager tumbles out.
- And I am the first to admit that clapped-out lorries, aged buses and ill-used delivery vans spew out disgraceful amounts of black diesel smoke.