What is another word for claptrap?
Pronunciation:
[ klˈaptɹap], [ klˈaptɹap], [ k_l_ˈa_p_t_ɹ_a_p]
Related words: claptrap voice actor, claptrap voice actor 2, claptrap voice actor 3, claptrap voice actor 4, claptrap voice actor 5, claptrap voice actor 6, claptrap voice actor 7, claptrap voice actor 8, claptrap voice actor 9
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Synonyms for Claptrap:
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n.
• balderdash • blah- blah .
Other synonyms:
- Orotundity ,
- applesauce ,
- baloney ,
- bilge ,
- bunkum ,
- grandiloquence ,
- hooey ,
- malarkey ,
- nonsense ,
- piffle ,
- tommyrot ,
- turgidity .
- idiocy ,
- poppycock ,
- tomfoolery .
Other relevant words:
- abandon ,
- abstraction ,
- abstractionist ,
- accelerator ,
- accelerator pedal ,
- actor's line ,
- addict ,
- address ,
- affectedness ,
- agate line ,
- air ,
- air current ,
- allegory ,
- ambidextrous ,
- amentia ,
- ancestry ,
- apologue ,
- apparent ,
- apparently ,
- argot ,
- arguing ,
- argumentation ,
- around the bend ,
- artificial ,
- assembly ,
- assembly line ,
- asshole ,
- assumed ,
- attic ,
- babble out ,
- babbling ,
- bachelor of science ,
- back talk ,
- backtalk ,
- bagatelle ,
- ball ,
- ballock ,
- balmy ,
- banana tree ,
- bang ,
- bank ,
- bank line ,
- banter ,
- bare ,
- barmy ,
- baseless ,
- bastard ,
- bats ,
- batty ,
- be intimate ,
- bean plant ,
- beat ,
- bed ,
- bedding ,
- bedding material ,
- berth ,
- betise ,
- betray ,
- betrayer ,
- bevel ,
- bicker ,
- big ,
- bilge water ,
- bilgewater ,
- billet ,
- binge ,
- blab ,
- blab out ,
- blandishment ,
- blind ,
- block ,
- blood ,
- blood line ,
- bloodline ,
- blow ,
- blusterous ,
- blustery ,
- boast ,
- boastful ,
- bogus ,
- bollock ,
- bonce ,
- bonk ,
- bonkers ,
- bootleg ,
- brabble ,
- brag ,
- braggart ,
- braggy ,
- brattle ,
- bravado ,
- break away ,
- breakdown ,
- breaking wind ,
- breeziness ,
- bruiser ,
- bubble ,
- buggy ,
- built in bed ,
- bull through ,
- bull's eye ,
- bullshit ,
- bum ,
- bunco ,
- bunk bed ,
- bunko ,
- bunko game ,
- burble ,
- burlesque ,
- business ,
- business line ,
- busyness ,
- butterfly ,
- buzz ,
- buzzword ,
- ca-ca ,
- cabbage ,
- cable ,
- cacography ,
- cajole ,
- cajolery ,
- camber ,
- cant over ,
- carbon black ,
- causerie ,
- cavil ,
- chaffer ,
- chalk ,
- chamfer ,
- champaign ,
- changeful ,
- channel ,
- chat ,
- chat up ,
- chatoyant ,
- chattering ,
- cheap ,
- cheesy ,
- chew the fat ,
- chichi ,
- chicken feed ,
- chicness ,
- chin music ,
- chin wag ,
- chin wagging ,
- chin-wag ,
- chin-wagging ,
- chintzy ,
- chit chat ,
- chitchat ,
- choice of words ,
- choke up ,
- circumvent ,
- clack valve ,
- clap ,
- clapper valve ,
- claptrap ,
- clatter ,
- claver ,
- click ,
- clobber ,
- cluck ,
- coax ,
- coaxing ,
- cock-a-hoop ,
- cock-and-bull story ,
- cocksucker ,
- cognition ,
- collyrium ,
- comment ,
- communication channel ,
- complain ,
- con game ,
- conception ,
- confab ,
- confabulate ,
- confidence game ,
- confidence trick ,
- confidential information ,
- contention ,
- contestation ,
- contrast ,
- controversy ,
- convict ,
- cook ,
- cop ,
- copper ,
- coquet ,
- coquette ,
- corn liquor ,
- course ,
- court ,
- cracked ,
- crackers ,
- crackpot ,
- crank ,
- crapola ,
- craziness ,
- crease ,
- credit line ,
- crinkle ,
- crotchet ,
- crow ,
- crowing ,
- crummy ,
- current of air ,
- curve ,
- cut ,
- daft ,
- dally ,
- damn ,
- darn ,
- dash ,
- deal ,
- debate ,
- decompose ,
- decomposition ,
- decrepit ,
- defecate ,
- defraud ,
- delineate ,
- delivery ,
- demarcation ,
- denounce ,
- deoxyephedrine ,
- descent ,
- describe ,
- design ,
- dickhead ,
- diction ,
- diddle ,
- diddley ,
- diddly ,
- diddly-shit ,
- diddly-squat ,
- diddlyshit ,
- diddlysquat ,
- dirt ,
- discharge ,
- dish the dirt ,
- disputation ,
- dividing line ,
- do it ,
- dodge ,
- dogshit ,
- dome ,
- doodle ,
- doodly-squat ,
- dotty ,
- double-dealing ,
- double-faced ,
- double-tongued ,
- draw ,
- dribble ,
- droppings ,
- duck ,
- dump ,
- dung ,
- dupery ,
- duplicitous ,
- dustup ,
- earthenware jar ,
- edible bean ,
- eff ,
- egg ,
- elaborateness ,
- elan ,
- elude ,
- empty-bellied ,
- en ,
- englut ,
- engorge ,
- escape ,
- evacuate ,
- evade ,
- evident ,
- evidently ,
- exaggeration ,
- excogitation ,
- expressive style ,
- eye-lotion ,
- face cloth ,
- faint ,
- fairy story ,
- fairytale ,
- faithlessly ,
- faker ,
- falderol ,
- fallacious ,
- false belief ,
- falseness ,
- falsify ,
- fancied ,
- fancy ,
- fantasise ,
- fantasize ,
- farce ,
- fart ,
- farting ,
- fashion ,
- fatuity ,
- fatuousness ,
- faux ,
- faux pas ,
- feed bunk ,
- fetich ,
- fetish ,
- fib ,
- fictional ,
- fictionalisation ,
- fictionalization ,
- field ,
- filch ,
- flair ,
- flatulency ,
- flatus ,
- flirt ,
- fluency ,
- fluff ,
- fly the coop ,
- folderal ,
- food waste ,
- forge ,
- forgery ,
- fraud ,
- fraudulence ,
- freak ,
- frill ,
- frivolity ,
- fruitcake ,
- fruity ,
- fuck ,
- furrow ,
- fuzz ,
- gabardine ,
- gabfest ,
- gaffe ,
- gas pedal ,
- gaseous state ,
- gasolene ,
- gasoline ,
- gaucherie ,
- get it on ,
- get laid ,
- giddiness ,
- gimcrack ,
- give away ,
- glass ,
- glut ,
- goldbrick ,
- goo ,
- gook ,
- goon ,
- goop ,
- gorge ,
- gormandise ,
- gormandize ,
- gossiper ,
- gossipmonger ,
- gourmandize ,
- grass ,
- guck ,
- guggle ,
- gun ,
- gunk ,
- gurgle ,
- ham ,
- hand truck ,
- have a go at it ,
- have intercourse ,
- have it away ,
- have it off ,
- have sex ,
- haywire ,
- head for the hills ,
- hedge ,
- hesitate ,
- hightail it ,
- hint ,
- hoax ,
- hoist ,
- hollow ,
- hollowness ,
- homely ,
- hood ,
- hoodlum ,
- hook ,
- hoot ,
- hornswoggle ,
- humming ,
- hump ,
- husk ,
- hustle ,
- ice ,
- idle ,
- illusion ,
- imagery ,
- imaginativeness ,
- imaging ,
- imitation ,
- imitative ,
- imposter ,
- impostor ,
- inanity ,
- incompatibility ,
- indulgence ,
- infirm ,
- inflation ,
- informer ,
- ingurgitate ,
- inmate ,
- innovation ,
- insubstantial ,
- inveigle ,
- iridescent ,
- irresponsibleness ,
- jabbering ,
- jack ,
- jactitation ,
- jambon ,
- janus-faced ,
- jargoon ,
- jaw ,
- jeer ,
- jeering ,
- job ,
- jolly ,
- josh ,
- juju ,
- junk ,
- junkie ,
- junky ,
- kick ,
- kid ,
- kindling ,
- knit ,
- knit stitch ,
- knock off ,
- know ,
- kookie ,
- kooky ,
- kvetch ,
- lallation ,
- lam ,
- lame ,
- lampblack ,
- lampoon ,
- language ,
- largeness ,
- last word ,
- latin ,
- lead ,
- learn ,
- lecture ,
- legend ,
- let the cat out of the bag ,
- lie with ,
- lift ,
- line of business ,
- line of credit ,
- line of descent ,
- line of gab ,
- line of merchandise ,
- line of products ,
- line of reasoning ,
- line of work ,
- line-shooting ,
- lineage ,
- lingo ,
- lip ,
- literary argument ,
- loco ,
- logical argument ,
- long-windedness ,
- loony ,
- loopy ,
- love ,
- love affair ,
- love story ,
- lug ,
- lunacy ,
- lying ,
- lyric ,
- madness ,
- make ,
- make love ,
- make out ,
- malarky ,
- mamilla ,
- mammilla ,
- manifest ,
- manifestly ,
- manipulate ,
- manner ,
- manner of speaking ,
- mannerism ,
- manufacture ,
- manure ,
- mash ,
- material ,
- maunder ,
- meander ,
- meaninglessness ,
- melodic line ,
- melodic phrase ,
- melody ,
- memorise ,
- memorize ,
- mental imagery ,
- meth ,
- methamphetamine ,
- methamphetamine hydrochloride ,
- methedrine ,
- mindlessness ,
- mire ,
- misleading ,
- misrepresent ,
- mistaken ,
- mode ,
- modishness ,
- molder ,
- monkey ,
- moon ,
- moonlight ,
- mother fucker ,
- motherfucker ,
- motortruck ,
- moulder ,
- mouth off ,
- mouthpiece ,
- muck up ,
- mud ,
- mulct ,
- mummery ,
- mutable ,
- mutual exclusiveness ,
- natter ,
- natural gas ,
- nerts ,
- nerveless ,
- newsmonger ,
- niceness ,
- nicety ,
- niggle ,
- nipple ,
- nobble ,
- noesis ,
- noggin ,
- nonfigurative ,
- nonobjective ,
- nonsense verse ,
- nonsensical ,
- nonsensicality ,
- noodle ,
- nose ,
- note ,
- nothingness ,
- nuance ,
- nut case ,
- nutty ,
- obviously ,
- occupation ,
- oddity ,
- off-key ,
- ooze ,
- oral cavity ,
- oral communication ,
- oral fissure ,
- orchis ,
- origin ,
- ostentation ,
- ostentatiousness ,
- outline ,
- overeat ,
- overgorge ,
- overindulge ,
- pablum ,
- palpable ,
- pan ,
- panache ,
- papal bull ,
- parable ,
- parameter ,
- parentage ,
- parody ,
- parry ,
- pasquinade ,
- patent ,
- patently ,
- patois ,
- peach ,
- pedigree ,
- personal credit line ,
- personal line of credit ,
- petrol ,
- pettifog ,
- phantasy ,
- philander ,
- phone line ,
- phoney ,
- phony ,
- phraseology ,
- phrasing ,
- pig ,
- pig out ,
- pigswill ,
- pigwash ,
- pilfer ,
- pinch ,
- pious platitude ,
- pipeline ,
- pitch ,
- pitter-patter ,
- plain stitch ,
- plainly ,
- plane ,
- play ,
- pointlessness ,
- pompousness ,
- poop ,
- pose ,
- postiche ,
- precis ,
- pretended ,
- pretender ,
- pretension ,
- prevarication ,
- prick ,
- product line ,
- production line ,
- prolixity ,
- prolixness ,
- pseud ,
- pseudo ,
- public lecture ,
- puffiness ,
- punk rock ,
- punk rocker ,
- purloin ,
- put off ,
- put on ,
- put-on ,
- putrefaction ,
- quarrel ,
- queerness ,
- quetch ,
- quiddity ,
- quirkiness ,
- rabbit on ,
- rail line ,
- railway line ,
- rale ,
- rat ,
- rattling ,
- rave ,
- ravingly ,
- razmataz ,
- razzle ,
- razzle-dazzle ,
- red cent ,
- refinement ,
- refuse ,
- repugnance ,
- resource ,
- resourcefulness ,
- rhodomontade ,
- rickety ,
- ridiculousness ,
- ripple ,
- role player ,
- roll ,
- roll in the hay ,
- romance language ,
- romanticism ,
- rook ,
- rotting ,
- round the bend ,
- row ,
- rumormonger ,
- rumourmonger ,
- run ,
- run along ,
- run away ,
- run-in ,
- salivate ,
- samson ,
- sapless ,
- sass ,
- sassing ,
- satiate ,
- sb ,
- scam ,
- scarf out ,
- scarper ,
- scat ,
- scent ,
- scoff ,
- scoffing ,
- scrabble ,
- scrap ,
- scraps ,
- scratch ,
- scrawl ,
- screw ,
- screwball ,
- scum ,
- scuttlebutt ,
- seam ,
- seethe ,
- self-aggrandising ,
- self-aggrandizing ,
- self-praise ,
- send-up ,
- sendup ,
- shabu ,
- shade ,
- sham ,
- shammer ,
- shaving ,
- sheer ,
- shirk ,
- shite ,
- shoot a line ,
- shoot the breeze ,
- shop ,
- short letter ,
- short-change ,
- shot ,
- shove ,
- shrink from ,
- shuck ,
- shucks ,
- sidestep ,
- simulated ,
- sing ,
- skirt ,
- skulduggery ,
- skullduggery ,
- slabber ,
- slang ,
- slant ,
- slash ,
- slaver ,
- sleazy ,
- sleep together ,
- sleep with ,
- slice ,
- slickness ,
- slime ,
- slip ,
- slobber ,
- slop ,
- slops ,
- slosh ,
- slosh around ,
- sludge ,
- slush around ,
- small talk ,
- smart ,
- smartness ,
- smatter ,
- smoothness ,
- smut ,
- snake oil ,
- snarf ,
- sneak ,
- snitch ,
- sob ,
- soft diet ,
- soft soap ,
- solicit ,
- son of a bitch ,
- soot ,
- sophistication ,
- sound off ,
- sour ,
- spare ,
- spatter ,
- speak ,
- speech communication ,
- spill ,
- spill the beans ,
- spit ,
- splash ,
- splashiness ,
- splosh ,
- spoken communication ,
- spoken language ,
- spoof ,
- spoon food ,
- spout ,
- sprinkle ,
- spunk ,
- squabble ,
- squat ,
- squealer ,
- squeeze ,
- stag ,
- stalk ,
- statement ,
- steer ,
- stemma ,
- sting ,
- stock ,
- stool ,
- story ,
- strain ,
- strapper ,
- straw ,
- strong-armer ,
- stubble ,
- stylishness ,
- stylus ,
- subscriber line ,
- swagger ,
- swank ,
- swash ,
- sweet talk ,
- sweet-talk ,
- swill down ,
- swindle ,
- swing ,
- swing music ,
- swipe ,
- synopsis ,
- take a crap ,
- take a shit ,
- take in water ,
- take to the woods ,
- takeoff ,
- tale ,
- talk of the town ,
- talk through one's hat ,
- talking ,
- talking to ,
- tamper ,
- tarradiddle ,
- tattle ,
- taurus ,
- tear apart ,
- teat ,
- telephone circuit ,
- telephone line ,
- tell on ,
- testicle ,
- testis ,
- thread ,
- throttle ,
- thrum ,
- thrust ,
- thug ,
- tilt ,
- tinder ,
- tinker ,
- tinker's dam ,
- tinker's damn ,
- tinny ,
- tip ,
- tit ,
- title ,
- tittle-tattle ,
- touchwood ,
- tough ,
- toughie ,
- tout ,
- toy ,
- trace ,
- trade ,
- traitorously ,
- transmission line ,
- traveller ,
- travesty ,
- treacherously ,
- treasonably ,
- trend ,
- trickery ,
- trim ,
- tune ,
- turd ,
- turgidness ,
- turn tail ,
- tweed ,
- twine ,
- twist ,
- two-faced ,
- uncertain ,
- unembellished ,
- unfounded ,
- unmingled ,
- unmistakable ,
- unmixed ,
- unornamented ,
- unpatterned ,
- unsettled ,
- unsubstantial ,
- untrue ,
- unvarnished ,
- unwarranted ,
- utter ,
- vacate ,
- vacuity ,
- vacuous ,
- vaunt ,
- verbalise ,
- verbalize ,
- vernacular ,
- vesica ,
- victimize ,
- violin ,
- vision ,
- visit ,
- vogue ,
- voguish ,
- voice communication ,
- void ,
- voodoo ,
- wacky ,
- wander ,
- wangle ,
- washcloth ,
- washrag ,
- waste ,
- waver ,
- way ,
- weak ,
- weakly ,
- weave ,
- whacky ,
- wheedle ,
- white ,
- whoreson ,
- wild ,
- wind instrument ,
- wind up ,
- winding ,
- woo ,
- wordiness ,
- wording ,
- wrangle ,
- wrap ,
- wreathe ,
- wrinkle ,
- yack ,
- yak ,
- yakety-yak ,
- yard bird ,
- yardbird .
- bunk .
- Antilogy ,
- Babblement ,
- Bavardage ,
- Beans ,
- Bibble-babble ,
- Blague ,
- Double Dutch ,
- Elench ,
- Elenchus ,
- Fiddledeedee ,
- Flam ,
- Galimatias ,
- Gibble-gabble ,
- Gongorism ,
- Humbuggery ,
- Hysteron Proteron ,
- Petitio Principii ,
- Philosophism ,
- Puffery ,
- Quillet ,
- Stultiloquence ,
- Twattle ,
- Vapouring ,
- abstract ,
- absurdity ,
- amphigory ,
- apple sauce ,
- argument ,
- argument by analogy ,
- argumentum ad baculum ,
- argumentum ad captandum ,
- argumentum ad hominem ,
- babble ,
- bad case ,
- balls ,
- begging the question ,
- blabber ,
- bladder ,
- blah-blah ,
- blarney ,
- blatherskite ,
- blether ,
- blether orblather ,
- blither ,
- bluster ,
- blustering ,
- boasting ,
- boloney ,
- bosh ,
- braggadocio ,
- bragging ,
- bs ,
- buncombe ,
- bunk bull ,
- bushwa ,
- cackle ,
- canard ,
- cant ,
- chaff ,
- changeable ,
- chatter ,
- chic ,
- chit-chat ,
- circular argument ,
- clack ,
- cobblers ,
- codswallop ,
- con ,
- counterfeit ,
- coup de theatre ,
- crap ,
- crock ,
- deceitful ,
- deceptive ,
- delusive ,
- delusory ,
- double-talk ,
- drool ,
- empty ,
- empty talk ,
- empty words ,
- erroneous ,
- eyewash ,
- fable ,
- fabricated ,
- fabrication ,
- fairy tale ,
- fake ,
- falderal ,
- fallacy ,
- false ,
- fantasy ,
- feeble ,
- fiction ,
- fictitious ,
- fictive ,
- fiddle ,
- fiddle-faddle ,
- fiddlesticks ,
- flannel ,
- flapdoodle ,
- flatulence ,
- flimflam ,
- flummery ,
- folderol ,
- folly ,
- foolishness ,
- formal fallacy ,
- fraudulent ,
- frippery ,
- fudge ,
- gab ,
- gabble ,
- gammon ,
- gas ,
- gasconade ,
- gash ,
- gibber ,
- gimcrackery ,
- gobbledegook ,
- gobbledygook ,
- gossip ,
- grandiosity ,
- groundless ,
- guff ,
- harangue ,
- hocus-pocus ,
- hogwash ,
- hoke ,
- hokeypokey ,
- hokum ,
- hoodoo ,
- horse feathers ,
- horsefeathers ,
- horseshit ,
- hot air ,
- hum ,
- humbug ,
- hyperbole ,
- idle talk ,
- illusive ,
- illusory ,
- imagination ,
- imbecility ,
- inconsistency ,
- insincere ,
- invention ,
- jabber ,
- jabberwocky ,
- jargon ,
- jazz ,
- jiggery-pokery ,
- jive ,
- knowledge ,
- line ,
- litter ,
- logical fallacy ,
- mere words ,
- mockery ,
- moonshine ,
- mouth ,
- muck ,
- mumbo jumbo ,
- non sequitur ,
- nut ,
- nuts ,
- palaver ,
- paralogism ,
- patter ,
- plain ,
- pomposity ,
- prate ,
- prattle ,
- prattling ,
- pretentiousness ,
- punk ,
- quibble ,
- quirk ,
- quodlibet ,
- ranting ,
- rattle ,
- raving ,
- ravings ,
- razzmatazz ,
- rhetoric ,
- rigamarole ,
- rodomontade ,
- romance ,
- rot ,
- sell ,
- senselessness ,
- shave ,
- silliness ,
- skimble-skamble ,
- slush ,
- solecism ,
- song and dance ,
- sophism ,
- sophistry ,
- speech ,
- spiel ,
- stage effect ,
- stuff ,
- stuff and nonsense ,
- stupidity ,
- style ,
- subterfuge ,
- subtlety ,
- swill ,
- talk ,
- taradiddle ,
- tommy-rot ,
- tosh ,
- tour de force ,
- traveler ,
- tripe ,
- truck ,
- trumped up story ,
- trumpery ,
- unreal ,
- vaporing ,
- verbiage ,
- waffle ,
- waffling ,
- weak point ,
- wind ,
- wish-wash ,
- words .
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How to use "Claptrap" in context?
There is a word that has come to mean anything or no thing that is worthless and ineffective. And it is this word, claptrap, that is often used to describe people and things that are not worth your time or effort. Claptrap is something that is said to deceive or mislead someone, and it is often used to describe anything that is not true or genuine.
Claptrap can also be used to refer to any type of nonsense or nonsense talk. And because claptrap can be used to describe anything and anyone, it is often seen as a derogatory term.
Paraphrases for Claptrap:
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nonsense.
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Noun, singular or mass
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