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clown world

noun

Etymology

Emerged from The Honkler, a version of the meme of Pepe the Frog, featuring a red clown nose and rainbow wig, characterized as honking a bicycle horn whenever liberals speak. The meme is associated with the use of honk honk ("HH"), a dog whistle for Heil Hitler.

Definitions

  1. The current absurd and irrational state of global society from the perspective of the…

    The current absurd and irrational state of global society from the perspective of the alt-right movement.

    • […] instead of the young boys growing up to be feminine, weak cry babies like they are in the modern ultra-liberal clown world they live in today.
    • "Bloody idiots. But remember, this is an age when hurty feelings come above everything else, especially free speech. Sums up our stupid clownworld backward feminut times, eh?"
    • But he wasn't a chad. If you are not a chad you are literally an unperson in this clown world.

  2. A crazy world or environment.

    • The /pol/ or politically incorrect board at 4chan became an alt-right clown world.

  3. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically

    Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see clown, world.

    • While he did not see these experiments as anti-textual, the most significant contribution to the clown world from the Copeau years was the development of modern French mime.
    • This is a clown world, the openly theatrical world of the stage-clown, and not a world of masters and servants, despite the origin of the role being partly in imitation of a recognisable social type.

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