CLAPTRAP


Meaning of CLAPTRAP in English

If you describe something that someone says as ~, you mean that it is stupid or foolish although it may sound important. (INFORMAL)

This is the ~ that politicians have peddled many times before.

= drivel

N-UNCOUNT disapproval

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