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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

Encyclopedia: Claptrap

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