(n.) A collection of persons employed to applaud at a theatrical exhibition.
Example Sentences:
(1) Columnist Matthew Parris, a friend of Gove, warned in the Times last week that the minister appears to have "a secret feral side", aided and abetted by "a bellicose claque of advisers, the education secretary's virtual motorcade".
(2) Repeatedly we found a kind of a deformation resembling collapse or folding up of a "chapeau claque" top hat.
(3) And once that happens, the source of all this rage naturally springs not from the actions of the police but an opportunistic claque of Fox and the right’s favorite bêtes noire: the “race hustlers”.
Stooge
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) The rouble is in freefall – it’s lost 40% of its value since the beginning of the year – Putin is resurgent and every week comes the news that another independent media outlet is being closed or the editor sacked and a government stooge appointed in their place.
(2) Gnod sound as much like Steppenwolf as they do the Stooges, as much like a cult as they do a biker gang, and there is, we've decided, a deliberate use of repetition to denote the Sisyphean nature of existence.
(3) Nothing stooged about this at all of course, all those cameras just happened to be in the office this morning.
(4) When you talk about Putin’s support people are supporting an empty space.” They dismissed Putin’s conservative values agenda as hypocrisy, adding: “He has no programme and no plan.” The pair said they supported western sanctions against Russia, imposed by the EU and US in the wake of the war in the east of Ukraine and were indifferent to the charge that they were western stooges.
(5) Heather MacDonald of the Manhattan Institute – employer of such luminaries as Iraq War stooge Judith Miller, invariably wrong William Kristol and racist hack Charles Murray – was willing to go even further than Marshall in placing the blame for women’s economic travails on alienation from “the family” and then further blaming women’s thoughts for turning women against where they belong.
(6) The band, who were informed by British post-punks such as Wire and the Pop Group rather than hardcore heroes such as Black Sabbath and the Stooges, were initially unpopular.
(7) He was Bin Laden’s acolyte, his accomplice, his stooge.
(8) A lot of the press focus is on big name artists: this year, Iggy and the Stooges, Justin Timberlake and Prince all played tiny shows.
(9) It is beautiful, but I also enjoy seeing the planes stoogeing around, queueing to get into the Gatwick hellhole.
(10) But it's no laughing matter that the UK's best chance of leading the world in stopping climate change is being systematically undermined by an unelected stooge for BAA.
(11) The deputy chair of the media regulator Ofcom, Conservative peer Lady Noakes, has admitted she was wrong to criticise the Labour party on Twitter after Harriet Harman branded her a Tory “stooge”.
(12) Without full media access the 60 might have been dismissed as stooges, all of them promised an MBE.
(13) He then proceeds to push a tray of government-branded brownies, before a stooge cop comes in and tries to arrest a couple of highly confused students.
(14) And what of this notion that the MDC is a stooge of British and American interests?
(15) The fast-talking Ali invariably delighted in using the more taciturn Frazier as his stooge.
(16) It marked the 10-year aniversary of the death of Peel, who was the first DJ to play the Stooges on UK radio.
(17) According to Revenue lawyers, in the leaked documents, Goldman's tactics were highly obstructive: they "resisted for five more years, raking up every conceivable point in the tribunal, and putting up a 'stooge' witness when Mr Housden [Goldman's tax director] was the obvious person to answer questions".
(18) Mandelson joins a growing list of spin doctors and industry stooges who have tried to rehabilitate APP's image."
(19) He told the London assembly: "There's this guy Scholar writing me letters who sounds … like some sort of Labour stooge."
(20) So far he has made few concessions to protesters, dismissing them as western stooges and comparing their white ribbon to a condom.