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claptrap
noun- nonsense, rubbish UK, 1915
From the conventional sense (language designed to win applause). - How could this jury listen to such Stella Dallas claptrap? — Edwin Torres, After Hours, p. 425, 1979
- This year we’ve heard the shortlist for the Turner prize described as “conceptual bullshit” (Kim Howells) and “rehashed claptrap” (Charles Saatchi). — Guardian, 11 December 2002
- a brothel with a high incidence of sexually transmitted infections US, 1987
- — Maledicta, p. 150, Summer/Winter 1986–87: “Sexual slang: prostitutes, pedophiles, flagellators, transvestites, and necrophiles”
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