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CLAPTRAP
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Dictionary entry overview: What does claptrap mean?
• CLAPTRAP (noun)
The noun CLAPTRAP has 1 sense:
1. pompous or pretentious talk or writing
Familiarity information: CLAPTRAP used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Pompous or pretentious talk or writing
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Synonyms:
blah; bombast; claptrap; fustian; rant
Hypernyms ("claptrap" is a kind of...):
grandiloquence; grandiosity; magniloquence; ornateness; rhetoric (high-flown style; excessive use of verbal ornamentation)
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