Claptrap: Definition and part of speech

Claptrap

  1. a. Contrived for the purpose of making a show, or gaining applause; deceptive; unreal.
  2. n. A contrivance for clapping in theaters.
  3. n. A trick or device to gain applause; humbug.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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