n.

Pretentious, insincere, or empty language: “I hate … that air/Of claptrap, which your recent poets prize” (Byron).

[Obsolete claptrap, a theatrical trick to win applause : CLAP¹ + TRAP¹.]

noun

1. Pretentious, pompous speech or writing: bombast, fustian, grandiloquence, magniloquence, orotundity, rant, turgidity. See plain/fancy, style/good style/bad style, words.
2. Something that does not have or make sense: balderdash, blather, bunkum, drivel, garbage, idiocy, nonsense, piffle, poppycock, rigmarole, rubbish, tomfoolery, trash, twaddle. Informal tommyrot. Slang applesauce, baloney, bilge, bull, bunk, crap, hooey, malarkey. See knowledge/ignorance.

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The noun has one meaning:

Meaning #1: pompous or pretentious talk or writing
  Synonyms: bombast, fustian, rant, blah

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Dansk (Danish)
n. - hule fraser

Nederlands (Dutch)
onzin, bombast

Français (French)
n. - baratin

Deutsch (German)
n. - Unsinn, Geschwafel, Effekthascherei

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - (καθομ.) φραστικά πυροτεχνήματα, παρλαπίπες

Italiano (Italian)
assurdità, stupidaggine, stoltezze

Português (Portuguese)
n. - conversa (f) (coloq.) mole

Русский (Russian)
ерунда

Español (Spanish)
n. - pavadas, burradas

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - klyschor, applådknipare

中文（简体） (Chinese (Simplified))
哗众取宠的话, 讨好的言行, 噱头

中文（繁體） (Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 嘩眾取寵的話, 討好的言行, 噱頭

한국어 (Korean)
n. - 인기를 끌기 위한 말이나 수단, 허튼 소리

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 場当たりのことば, はったり

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) كلام فارغ, هرا‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮מלים ריקות, שטויות, דיבור וחשיפת רגשות רק כדי לזכות במחיאות-כפיים‬

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