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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A group of persons hired to applaud at a performance.
  2. n. A group of fawning admirers.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. In theaters, a set of men, called claqueurs, distributed through the audience, and hired to applaud the piece or the actors; the system of paid applause. This method of aiding the success of public performances is very ancient; but it first became a permanent system, openly organized and controlled by the claqueurs themselves, in Paris at the beginning of the nineteenth century.
  2. n. Hence Any band of admirers applauding and praising from interested motives.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A group of people hired to attend a performance and to either applaud or boo.
  2. n. A group of people who pre-arrange among themselves to express strong support for an idea, so as to give the false impression of a wider consensus.
  3. n. A group of fawning admirers.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. A collection of persons employed to applaud at a theatrical exhibition.
  2. n. a group of sycophantic followers.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a group of followers hired to applaud at a performance

Etymologies

  1. From French claquer ("to clap one's hands"). (Wiktionary)
  2. French, from claquer, to clap, of imitative origin. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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  • madmouth whattabuncha claquetty-claqueurs! Jun 1, 2009

  • johnmperry also colloquial for the tongue Jun 17, 2008

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