Clapter

What is Clapter?


1.

Clapter is a word coined by Amanda Filipacchi in her 1993 novel Nude Men to describe the enthusiastic response to the avant-garde magician Laura who entertains her audience with "tricks" that require no actual magic but do demand an elevated level of sophistication on the part of the viewer in order to be appreciated.

"When Laura takes a Kleenex out of her pocket and wipes her forehead with it, everyone roars with clapter"

See applause, clap, clapping, noise, laughter

2.

applause

The audience erupted in clapter.

See Max

3.

A "joke", often making a political or social statement, whose purpose is to make the audience applaud and agree instead of laugh. Popular with hack comedians and their fans.

Did Margaret Cho tell a single joke during that performance? Her entire show was just left-wing clapter.

See clapper, talking point, joke, comedy, comedian

4.

an ingenious term used to refer to the beautiful sound that we have come to know and love as applause. Laugh is to laughter as clap is to clapter.

The stadium erupted in roars of clapter.

See applause, clap, clapping, noise, laughter

5.

A harmoniously outrageous burst of laughing and clapping.

Nate Dizzle was over took with clapter, as Walter streaked through the vineyard.

See happy, slap happy, claptor, clap, clapping, laughter, booty, laugh

6.

A harmoniously outrageous burst of laughing and clapping.

Nate Dizzle was over took with clapter, as Walter streaked through the vineyard.

See happy, slap happy, claptor, clap, clapping, laughter, booty, laugh

7.

applause, either that of a group of people, as in an audience, or a single retard.

That retard is always quick with the clapter at inappropriate times. I wonder if he understands that this is a professional presentation, not a third grade book report.

See applause, clapping, clap


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