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6 letters · 17 points in Scrabble
Meaning
noun a group of followers hired to applaud at a performance
originBorrowed from French claque (“group of people hired to applaud or boo, claque”, literally “a slap; a clap”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0