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Noun: claptrap  'klap,trap
  1. Pompous or pretentious talk or writing
    - bombast, fustian, rant, blah

Derived forms: claptraps

Type of: grandiloquence, grandiosity, magniloquence, ornateness, rhetoric

Nearest

clap together
clap up
clapboard
clapped out
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clappers
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claque
claqueur
Clara Josephine Schumann
Clare Booth Luce
clarence
Clarence Darrow
Clarence Day
Clarence Malcolm Lowry
Clarence Seward Darrow
Clarence Shepard Day Jr.