claptrap

Meanings

Plural: claptraps

Noun

• pompous or pretentious talk or writing
• Empty verbiage or nonsense.
• A device for producing a clapping sound in theaters.
• A device or trick to gain applause; a humbug.

Synonyms

absurdity, all my eye, all my eye and Betty Martin, applesauce, bafflegab, balderdash, balls, baloney, banana oil, Bandini, baragouin, batcrap, batshit, bilgewater, blah, blather, blatherskite, bobbins, bollocks, bombast, bosh, BS, bull, bull feathers, bullcrap, bulldust, bullshit, bullspeak, bunk, bunkum, bushwah, clamjamfrey, claptrap, cobblers, codswallop, crap, crock, crock of shit, double Dutch, double talk, doublespeak, drivel, eyewash, fiddle-faddle, flapdoodle, flim-flam, flizz, flummery, folderol, foolishness, footle, framis, fuckery, fuckry, fudge, fustian, galimatias, garbage, garble, gibber, gibberish, gobbledygook, gossip, Greek, guff, gup, hoax, hocus-pocus, hogwash, hokum, hooey, horse hockey, horse piss, horse puckey, horsefeathers, horseshit, hot air, humbug, Irish bull, jabber, jargon, jibber-jabber, jimjam, jive, junk, lallation, macaroni, malarkey, manure, meaninglessness, moonshine, mumbo jumbo, nertz, nonsense, palaver, pie in the sky, piffle, pigswill, poppycock, prattle, put-on, rant, rhubarb, rhubarb rhubarb, rigmarole, rot, rubbish, ruse, santorum, shit, shite, skimble-skamble, squit, stuff, stuff and nonsense, tommy-rot, tosh, trash, tripe, tush, twaddle, waffle, wass, whiff-whaff, word salad