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Claytons
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Clayton's
English
Pronunciation
en EN-AU ck1 Claytons.ogg AU
Etymology 1
en eponyms 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.
Adjective
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en Australia New Zealand informal Inferior substitute, unsatisfactory compromise, or ersatz.
en Weekly UK News Bulletin (Apr 17-21) rec.sport.rugby.league Sir Just Me April 22, 2000 Cheer up bro, it was a Claytons test anyway. http://groups.google.com/group/rec.sport.rugby.league/browse_thread/thread/a181c47f1181ee24/ec98cc0deb4884fe?hl=en&q=%22Claytons%22#ec98cc0deb4884fe
en 2013-03-18 Yahoo!7 Sport Let's put the summer of scandal behind us Yahoo!7 AFL Game Day's Hamish McLaughlin summed up the summer perfectly last Sunday: "There's been new coaches, new presidents, new captains, good trades, ugly trades, suspended CEOs, suspended football managers and coaches, player managers fined, drug allegations, ASADA, WADA, the ACC, capped rotations, Clayton's tanking, the tanking you're having when you're not really having tanking. http://au.sports.yahoo.com/football/galleries/g/16391800/why-this-will-be-the-best-footy-season-yet/16391810/ 2013-05-17
Derived terms
en Claytons solution Claytons election Claytons alliance Claytons term
Etymology 2
Proper noun
en proper noun form
en Clayton
See also
en Clayton Clayton's
en 2-syllable words