Meanings
Claytons1
- AustraliaNew Zealandinformalnot comparableInferior substitute, unsatisfactory compromise, or ersatz.
Cheer up bro, it was a Claytons test anyway.
2000 April 22, Sir Just Me, “Weekly UK News Bulletin (Apr 17-21)”, in rec.sport.rugby.league (Usenet)1 more example
AFL Game Day's Hamish McLaughlin summed up the summer perfectly last Sunday: "There's been new coaches, new presidents, new captains, good trades, ugly trades, suspended CEOs, suspended football managers and coaches, player managers fined, drug allegations, ASADA, WADA, the ACC, capped rotations, Clayton's tanking, the tanking you're having when you're not really having tanking.
2013 March 18, Yahoo!7 Sport, “Let's put the summer of scandal behind us”, in Yahoo!7, retrieved 17 May 2013
Claytons2
- pluralplural of Clayton
Origin
Claytons · adjective
From a non-alcoholic drink called Claytons named after the Clayton brothers and promoted in Australia and New Zealand in the 1980s as “the drink you have when you′re not having a drink”. The drink itself did not impress consumers and is now all but forgotten.
Full word history & related roots →Claytons · proper noun
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Full word history & related roots →Cite this entry
Claytons. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Claytons
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