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clap back (third-person singular simple present claps back, present participle clapping back, simple past and past participle clapped back)

1. (originally African-American Vernacular, informal, intransitive) To make a witty or sarcastic retort.
   • 2019 September 24, Karen Zraick, “Greta Thunberg, After Pointed U.N. Speech, Faces Attacks From the Right”, in The New York Times‎, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-06-04:

     On Monday night, President Trump tweeted a clip of Ms. Thunberg's speech, along with a message many believed to be sarcastic. "She seems like a very happy young girl looking forward to a bright and wonderful future," he wrote. "So nice to see!" Ms. Thunberg, who has nearly two million Twitter followers of her own, clapped back in her bio, which had been changed on Tuesday: "A very happy young girl looking forward to a bright and wonderful future."

派生語

• clapback (noun)

参照

Further reading

• “clap back”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.

アナグラム

• Black Cap, black cap, blackcap

発音

名詞

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, 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, “Jon Kung, the self-taught chef who went viral”, in HTSI‎, London: The Financial Times Ltd., →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2 October 2023, page 77:

     “My first truly viral video was a clapback to a nasty comment someone made about me being a stupid millennial and telling me to ‘go eat toast’,” Kung recalls.

参考

Further reading

• “clapback”, in Merriam-Webster.com Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.

アナグラム

• Black Cap, black cap, blackcap