Crossword-Solution: CLAPTRAPS 9 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 15

This drama, which, I believe, was performed at Bartholomew Fair, is one of the most curious of a curious class of compositions, utterly destitute of literary merit, but valuable as showing what were then the most successful claptraps for an audience composed of the common people.

You've got your head full of claptraps and tantrums till you haven't a grain of sense belonging to you.

Presently he began to weave a tale, sorry enough, with all the ancient claptraps and rusted platitudes.

They had to resort to the claptraps of fashion-plates and other engravings, in the hope of forcing an immediate sale upon persons who, caring for fashion-plates, did not care for the literary character of the enterprise.

Brougham, who had thrust himself in among the party, was pitched upon, as having the best gift of the gab, to propose the Duke's health, which he did in a very tawdry speech, stuffed with claptraps and commonplaces.