Usually means: Paid group applauding at performances.
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  1. claque: Merriam-Webster
  2. claque: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. claque: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. claque: Collins English Dictionary
  5. claque: Vocabulary.com
  6. claque: Wordnik
  7. claque: Wiktionary
  8. claque: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. claque: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. claque: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Claque, claque: Dictionary.com
  12. claque: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. Claque: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Claque: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. claque: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. claque: Rhymezone
  17. Claque, claque (f): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. claque: FreeDictionary.org
  19. claque: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  20. claque: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. claque: TheFreeDictionary.com
  22. claque: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. Claque: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (claque)

noun:  (collective) A group of people hired to attend a performance and to either applaud or boo.
noun:  (by extension)
noun:  A group of fawning admirers.
noun:  A group of people who pre-arrange among themselves to express strong support for an idea, so as to give the false impression of a wider consensus.

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