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Claytons

adj

Etymology

From a non-alcoholic drink called Claytons named after the Clayton brothers and promoted in Australia and New Zealand in the 1980s as “the drink you have when you′re not having a drink”. The drink itself did not impress consumers and is now all but forgotten.

  1. derived from tūn — “enclosure, settlement; town”
  2. derived from clǣġ — “clay”
  3. inherited from Claytone
  4. suffixed as claytons — “Clayton + s”

Definitions

  1. Inferior substitute, unsatisfactory compromise, or ersatz.

    • Cheer up bro, it was a Claytons test anyway.

  2. plural of Clayton

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA