clap-trap

A form of claptrap — Empty verbiage or nonsense.

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Meanings

nounclap-trap (uncountable)
  1. alternativeuncountableAlternative form of claptrap.

    Well, well; I hope that I am the last man to be led by newspaper clap-trap, but I think that it's a deuced queer proceeding all the same.

    1923, Ernest Bramah [pseudonym; Ernest Brammah Smith], “(please specify the page)”, in The Eyes of Max Carrados, London: Grant Richards, →OCLC
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APA

clap-trap. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/clap-trap

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