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Date "CLAP-TRAP" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1615. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Clap-trap Something introduced to win applause: something really worthless, but sure to take with the groundlings. A trap to catch applause. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Author | Date | Quotation |
Communist Manifesto | 1848 | The bourgeois clap-trap about the family and education, about the hallowed co-relation of parent and child, becomes all the more disgusting, the more, by the action of Modern Industry, all family ties among the proletarians are torn asunder, and their children transformed into simple articles of commerce and instruments of labour. (reference) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "CLAP-TRAP" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "CLAP-TRAP" is used about 4 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 4 | 175,879 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: claptrap. | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-c-l-p-p-r-t" | |
-1 letter: caltrap. | |
-2 letters: carpal. | |
-3 letters: altar, apart, appal, artal, carat, clapt, craal, papal, ratal, talar. | |
-4 letters: acta, alar, atap, carl, carp, cart, clap, crap, paca, pact, palp, papa, para, part, plat, prat, rapt, tala, talc, tapa, tarp, trap. | |
-5 letters: aal, act, ala, alp, alt, apt, arc, art, cap, car, cat, lac, lap, lar, lat, pac, pal. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-c-l-p-p-r-t" | |
+1 letter: applecart, claptraps. | |
+2 letters: applecarts, applicator. | |
+3 letters: applicators, applicatory, pantropical, participial. | |
+5 letters: laparoscopist, participially, precapitalist, reapplication, topographical, typographical. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)43 4C 41 50 2D 54 52 41 50 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000011 01001100 01000001 01010000 00101101 01010100 01010010 01000001 01010000 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)C L A P - T R A P |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0043 004C 0041 0050 002D 0054 0052 0041 0050 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)374635501554523550 |
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