Claptrap

Word CLAPTRAP
Character 8
Hyphenation clap trap
Pronunciations N/A

Definitions and meanings of "Claptrap"

What do we mean by claptrap?

Pretentious, insincere, or empty language. noun

A contrivance for clapping in theaters. noun

Figuratively, an artifice or device to elicit applause or gain popularity; deceptive show or pretense. noun

Designing or designed merely to win approval or catch applause.

Contrived for the purpose of making a show, or gaining applause; deceptive; unreal. adjective

A contrivance for clapping in theaters. noun

A trick or device to gain applause, especially pretentious but empty rhetoric; humbug. noun

Pompous or pretentious talk or writing noun

Empty verbiage or nonsense.

A device for producing a clapping sound in theaters.

A device or trick to gain applause; a humbug.

Pretentious, pompous, nonsensical and or empty language (especially while pandering to an audience). Urban Dictionary

A person who is prone to catching Chylamidia, or one whose sexual hygiene (or lack thereof) is questionable. Urban Dictionary

An STD infested slutty girl. Urban Dictionary

Nonsense, bunk, blah-blah-blah! Urban Dictionary

A girl that has been passed around so much that she is 100% infested with chlamydia and aims to spread it. Urban Dictionary

Absurd talk and ideas. Often used to describe someone drunk talking nonsense. Urban Dictionary

The act of eating a girl out while she is sitting on your face. Then before she is about to climax you bite her vagina folds and rip them from her body so that they are loose and trapped inside of your mouth. Urban Dictionary

Vagina infected with Gonorrhea Urban Dictionary

Where you plan a really cool party with drinks and stuff but no one comes. Urban Dictionary

99.9% of blogs (could also be solipsistic cRaptrap) Urban Dictionary

Synonyms and Antonyms for Claptrap

The word "claptrap" in example sentences

This claptrap is ideological, rigid and disconnected from reality: ❋ Jonathan Lewis (2010)

For those who believe this claptrap from the likes of Al Gore and his climate change scientific wizards, than go right now and junk your vehicles and walk, move out of your carbon polluting homes and live in a tent or find a cave. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Trying to shame me with religious claptrap is less useful than tits on a boar. ❋ Unknown (2010)

This claptrap is ideological, rigid and disconnected from reality. ❋ Jonathan Lewis (2010)

If I understand Dispensational theology (and that may not even be possible, given the inherent contradictions and outright nonsense with which such premillennial claptrap is imbued), the coming of the "anti-Christ" should be a good thing, since it presages The Rapture, wherein the Righteous are bodily ascended into heaven, leaving the rest of us heathens and unbelievers to live in peace, once and for all. ❋ Unknown (2008)

But how do we know that this tells us any more than that a large pile of illogical claptrap is related to a small pile of neurons? ❋ Unknown (2007)

Whoever writes this claptrap is truly stupid – and you are doubly stupid for reporting it. ❋ Unknown (2005)

Why the need for this emotive claptrap, which is mostly not actually relevant to the comments here? ❋ Unknown (2010)

(This is the meaning of the word "claptrap" BTW; claptrap is a planted line you are forced to applaud for.) ❋ Unknown (2009)

"White flag of surrender" is the kind of claptrap that even NASCAR dads reject at this point. ❋ Unknown (2009)

What the Right keeps missing is that the decades of kow-towing to the Moral Majority and like narrow-minded congregations with this kind of claptrap has alienated them from the very large part of the rest of the country. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Calling it "claptrap" doesn't prove it wrong, either. ❋ Ann Althouse (2009)

This is the usual kind of claptrap employed by those who, through their deeply rooted prejudice, wish to deny to the Jewish people the right, to national liberation and self-determination in their homeland, that they so stridently demand for all other peoples. ❋ Unknown (2008)

What a disgraceful sack of crapulence this kind of claptrap reveal the Left to be. ❋ Unknown (2006)

When you hear that kind of claptrap from anyone elected in this country, it's disgusting. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Irvington, N.Y. James Fallows calls "claptrap" the notion that Islamic terrorists hate us for who we are rather than for what we do. ❋ Unknown (2004)

With less than 2 hours of electricity a day, no free press, and no ability to get good information about where their next meal is coming from, how would one ever believe this kind of claptrap? ❋ Unknown (2006)

Oddly enough, it reminded me of the kind of claptrap I'd heard from Bismarck -- strong government, and lashing the workers -- but I couldn't see how Flashy, M.P., was going to bring that about. ❋ Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- (1971)

[I've had enough] of your claptrap. ❋ Author (2006)

[Minh] is such a claptrap! That's his [second] [name]. ❋ Not Claptrap (2008)

Guy 1 - "Hey that girl looks [kinda] cute" Guy 2 - "[Whoa man], don't [touch] that. She's a claptrap." ❋ Jp0113 (2012)

The candidate promised [voters] that Mexico would [build the wall], but it was truly just [claptrap]. ❋ Talk2me-JCH2 (2021)

Michael : yo did you hear about [Stevie] [Jonny] : Nah [what happened to him] Michael : He hooked up with Gabby she's a total Claptrap Jonny : damn I hope he gets through it :( ❋ Lynx You're Gonna Love My Nuts (2021)

It’s [bland] [claptrap]! She is a claptrap talking [nonsense] ❋ Mushroom1 (2021)

[My friend] ([Alexis]) [came] over last night and I claptrapped her. ❋ UnwaryFour001 (2014)

Dont stick [your dick] in that [runny] [claptrap]. ❋ Clauzilla (2016)

"[my buddy] planned a nice party during [quarantine], he basically [dug] himself into a ClapTrap Moment" ❋ Guhirfug (2021)

His solipsistic claptrap is so [yawn]... ❋ PiaB (2008)

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