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applanche 

When you're choosing fruit in the supermarket and you pick an apple out of the display they all fall like an avalanche.
While I was at the deli counter my kids started an applanche in the produce section.
applanche by Rik and Susan October 24, 2008

applaudience 

term used in open door theatre invented by an amazing director to refer to when the audience applauds wildly at our amazing show.
these canaan days we sing and dance so we can get applaudience...
applaudience by izzie April 10, 2005

Fake-applauding 

When you are clapping your hand but making no sound. So it looks like you are clapping your hands, but in reality you don't care.
He was fake-applauding at the opera yesterday.
Fake-applauding by Ni2k February 19, 2011

stop applauding 

to stop applauding at school
Teacher OK We will applaud 1,2,3 all applauding Me Shh stop applauding all freezing
verb

show approval or praise by clapping.
"the crowd whistled and applauded"

"Jill applauded the decision"
applaud by Jim H. Stl. December 12, 2013

don’t applaud a fish for swimming 

Don’t praise somebody for doing something that they simply should have been doing in the first place.
T: ‘My boyfriend didn’t cheat on me!’
Don’t applaud a fish for swimming Tiffany. You’re praising a guy who’s doing nothing more than treating you like a decent human being.