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claptrap
/ˈklæpˌtɹæp/
noun 3
Collocations
4ADJ.
utter
VERB + CLAPTRAP
book, load, worked
CLAPTRAP + NOUN
citizens
PREP.
about
Definitions
noun
1
Empty verbiage or nonsense.
Klein diagnoses impressively what hasn’t worked. No more claptrap about fracked gas as a bridge to renewables. Enough already of the international summit meetings that produce sirocco-quality hot air, and nonbinding agreements that bind us all to more emissions.
2
A device for producing a clapping sound in theaters.
3
A device or trick to gain applause; a humbug.
There had been a suggestion that the child should be with her [while she answers the door], but the mother herself had rejected this. "It would be stagey," she had said, "and clap-trap. There is nothing I hate so much as that."
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Klein diagnoses impressively what hasn’t worked. No more claptrap about fracked gas as a bridge to renewables. Enough already of the international summit meetings that produce sirocco-quality hot air,
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There had been a suggestion that the child should be with her [while she answers the door], but the mother herself had rejected this. "It would be stagey," she had said, "and clap-trap. There is nothi
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That's a load of claptrap.
Tatoeba · #1109080104
The mayor and his companion have been uttering a lot of claptrap to the citizens for a long time.
Tatoeba · #1130759505
That book is utter claptrap.
Tatoeba · #13552981Usage Notes
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