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claque /klak / /klɑːk /noun1A group of sycophantic followers: the President was surrounded by a claque of scheming bureaucrats...- Still, with a sycophantic media claque in close support, his is the dominant voice in public discourse.
- How on earth could we have put this scheming, mendacious little man and his miserable claque back in office for another three years?
- In even earlier times, politicians - even party leaders - used to address open public meetings in their election campaigns, not just carefully screened, ticket-only claques.
2A group of people hired to applaud (or heckle) a performer or public speaker.This has been attributed to the workings of the claque of a rival singer; but whatever the truth of the matter, it was Albani's first and last appearance in that theatre....- No claque of paid liars can cheapen the sacrifice and nobility of the cause.
- Perhaps it was a claque: a paid band of willing clappers.
Origin Mid 19th century: French, from claquer 'to clap'. The practice of paying members of an audience for their support originated at the Paris opera. Rhymes aback, alack, attack, back, black, brack, clack, crack, Dirac, drack, flack, flak, hack, jack, Kazakh, knack, lack, lakh, mac, mach, Nagorno-Karabakh, pack, pitchblack, plaque, quack, rack, sac, sack, shack, shellac, slack, smack, snack, stack, tach, tack, thwack, track, vac, wack, whack, wrack, yak, Zack |