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What does claptrap mean?

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Noun
  1. empty verbiage or nonsense [from early 19th c.]
  2. (historical) A device for producing a clapping sound in theaters.
  3. a trick or device to gain applause; humbug
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And he knows how to sum up his point in a few words with no gobbledygook or claptrap!
I am betraying little if I say that the piece concludes with two happy couples and much sentimental claptrap.
This isn't situational realism, it's misogynist claptrap, the kind of stuff no one needs to see in the movies.
Long before he died, he wrote an essay, The Myth of Sisyphus, which in a normal mood I usually dismiss as overwrought claptrap.
The global citizen is assaulted with a cacophony of claptrap, and mumbo-jumbo has gained the upper hand.
The reason I did not publish such stuff is that it was inconsequential claptrap.

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