clapback

See also: clap back

English

Etymology

Deverbal from clap back.

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Noun

clapback (countable and uncountable, plural clapbacks)

  1. (uncountable, countable, music) An exercise where the pupil is instructed to repeat a previously played rhythm by clapping.
    Coordinate terms: playback, singback
  2. (countable, originally African-American Vernacular, informal) A witty or sarcastic retort.
    Coordinate terms: comeback, talkback
    • 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 10 June 2023:
      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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