A dumb-assed replacement phrase for the word-phrase "comeback", which, in normal people English, means "retort".
It makes no sense since "clap" is a word that doesn't represent anything having to do with the meaning of the intention behind the phrase, and meaning something completely different.
In fact, you could replace the verb aspect of this word-phrase with almost any verb, such as:
Fartback
Pushback
Suckback
Blowback
Pickleback
Sayback
and the dumb-assedness of the phrase stays the same, since the focus isn't on it's etymology, but the intention of meaning that the speaker has. The reason that this is dumb is because words mean things and, now, we're arriving at a place where any word can mean anything. This, of course, will inevitably lead to the world simply "barking" at each other like dogs would since, in the future, all we'll need to do is make noises at each other to get our points across since no specific word holds any intrinsic meaning anymore.
It makes no sense since "clap" is a word that doesn't represent anything having to do with the meaning of the intention behind the phrase, and meaning something completely different.
In fact, you could replace the verb aspect of this word-phrase with almost any verb, such as:
Fartback
Pushback
Suckback
Blowback
Pickleback
Sayback
and the dumb-assedness of the phrase stays the same, since the focus isn't on it's etymology, but the intention of meaning that the speaker has. The reason that this is dumb is because words mean things and, now, we're arriving at a place where any word can mean anything. This, of course, will inevitably lead to the world simply "barking" at each other like dogs would since, in the future, all we'll need to do is make noises at each other to get our points across since no specific word holds any intrinsic meaning anymore.
Steve: "I was watching YouTube videos and I hear them continue using the word "Clapback", but I can't understand what they mean. The meaning just sounds like "comeback" to me."
Andy: "Yep. You're right Steve. That's pretty much all it means."
Steve: "But we already had a word to describe that. Why would people want to make up another one?"
Andy: "To quote the band The Refreshments' song 'Banditos', "Everybody knows that the world is full of stupid people."
Andy: "Yep. You're right Steve. That's pretty much all it means."
Steve: "But we already had a word to describe that. Why would people want to make up another one?"
Andy: "To quote the band The Refreshments' song 'Banditos', "Everybody knows that the world is full of stupid people."
by My Diction is Reckless December 6, 2017
Get the clapback mug.A person who accumulates large amounts of unnecessary things and keeps them around their house, often in stacks. It is not uncommon for stacks to reach several feet in height.
When I saw the piles of newspapers in the corners and on the tables in the rooms, I realized that she was a crapstacker.
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Men (typicallly of Punjabi descent) with extremely foul smelling backs, particularly on hot days.
The term suggests that the individual excretes feces through the pores on their backs, which mixes with sweat and saturates their clothing.
The term suggests that the individual excretes feces through the pores on their backs, which mixes with sweat and saturates their clothing.
Brendan: Fahad was giving me a piggyback ride and some smell made me vomit on to the back of his head.
Tom: What a fucking crapback.
Tom: What a fucking crapback.
by IDunGoofed July 20, 2012
Get the Crapback mug.To respond to an insult by answering while clapping your hands in rhythm of your words, in order to add empahasis. Common among outraged ghetto women...
He told her to get out of his face. She gave a clapback by saying "I(clap) will(clap) get(clap) in (clap) your(clap) face (clap) when (clap) ever (clap) I (clap) want(clap)
by Cuivre July 19, 2019
Get the clapback mug.A snarky retort you give to a family member during Thanksgiving, usually in response to a passive aggressive remark made by said family member.
Uncle: "Why you always in and out of this house?"
Me: "Why are you always in and out of jail?"
Cousin: "Still struggling to find a job, huh?"
Me: "Still struggling to find your baby daddy, huh?" #Thanksgiving Clapback
Me: "Why are you always in and out of jail?"
Cousin: "Still struggling to find a job, huh?"
Me: "Still struggling to find your baby daddy, huh?" #Thanksgiving Clapback
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by CAC37 March 29, 2019
Get the Clapback mug.When a class discussion is hijacked by a rambling, tangential and eventually irrelevant but wholly derailing observation, grievance or out-and-out rant by one of the class participants.
We were in our final session on behavioral economics and this woman started classjacking the discussion into the moral underpinnings and motivations of the study of economics, behavioral or otherwise.
by panopticonopolis November 10, 2009
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