clapback
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See also: clap back
English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
clapback (countable and uncountable, plural clapbacks)
- (uncountable, countable, music) An exercise where the pupil is instructed to repeat a previously played rhythm by clapping.
- (countable, originally African-American Vernacular, informal) A witty or sarcastic retort.
- 2020 March 9, “’It’s so toxic’: why we’re addicted to mean online gossip about women”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian[1], London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-06-10:
- While these bits of online affirmation are addicting, so too are the online takedowns, the clapbacks, the snark.
- 2023 October 7, Ajesh Patalay, quoting Jon Kung, “The Naked Chef 2.0”, in FT Weekend[2], HTSI, page 77:
- “My first truly viral video was a clapback to a nasty comment someone made about me being a stupid millenial and telling me to ‘go eat toast’,” Kung recalls.
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Further reading[edit]
- “clapback”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.