Definitions for claptrap

claptrap clap·trap

Spelling: [klap-trap]
IPA: /ˈklæpˌtræp/

Claptrap is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 183 anagrams from letters in claptrap (aaclpprt).

Definitions for claptrap

noun

  1. pretentious but insincere or empty language:
  2. any artifice or expedient for winning applause or impressing the public.

Origin of claptrap

First recorded in 1720-30; clap1 + trap1

Examples for claptrap

Confound you, do you know who you are talking to, Mr. claptrap?

I do not want to hear any more of this claptrap and nonsense from you.

But it dared an extremely non-popular subject, and treated that subject with an audacious disregard of anything like claptrap.

Shears loved this dry, claptrap way of announcing his triumphs.

It was a claptrap, and meant to obtain popularity and assist the Ministerial interest at the election.

My dears, do let me beg of you not to be caught by claptrap.

Mr Erman despises the common trick and claptrap resorted to by vulgar writers.

"I guess we'd better shet her claptrap once and fer all," he said.

I'm getting further and further away from this century and its claptrap.

The retort is on a par with the proposition, and both are claptrap.

Word Value for claptrap
Scrable

14

Words with friends

18

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