clapback
nounEtymology Deverbal from clap back.
1
Entertainment, Lifestyle, Music An exercise where the pupil is instructed to repeat a previously played rhythm by clapping.
2
Informal A witty or sarcastic retort.
- While these bits of online affirmation are addicting, so too are the online takedowns, the clapbacks, the snark.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 Jun 2023:
- “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.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 02 Oct 2023, page 77:
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