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clout
noun- a heavy blow UK
Conventional from about 1400, hardly literary by 1770, and has since slipped into dialect and colloquial use. - Oh, he may well lose his rag early on and give somebody–lots of people–a clout. It is a sort of pressure valve. — The Observer, 30 March 2003
- power, influence, especially political US, 1868
- I don’t like admitting my stomach has more clout than my mind[.] — Rhiannon Paine, Too Late for the Festival, p. 18, 1999
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