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clown world

clown world noun: the current absurd and irrational state of global society from the perspective of the alt-right movement.

Noun

clown world (plural clown worlds)

  1. (derogatory, slang) 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.2020 December 10, James Nicholls, How Uk Should Be, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN
    • "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?"2020, P. J. Vanston, Somewhere in Europe, unnumbered page
  2. (figuratively) A crazy world or environment.
    • > negating the self centered aspect of your
      > comment, it was through the resulting disagreement that this realization was
      > able to come to fruition. In all honesty I'm exceptionally happy with how
      > things turned out and I truly hope the best for her family.
      Your crazy clown world has nothing to...2000 October 24, ., “Chumley is a big fat idiot (part 2)”, in rec.arts.bodyart (Usenet), retrieved 14 Jan 2022
    • The /pol/ or politically incorrect board at 4chan became an alt-right clown world.2018 August 15, Christopher Othen, Soldiers of a Different God: How the Counter-Jihad Movement Created Mayhem, Murder and the Trump Presidency, Amberley Publishing Limited, →ISBN, →OCLC
  3. 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.2003, Donald McManus, No Kidding!: Clown as Protagonist in Twentieth-Century Theatre, page 33
    • 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.2013, Jon Davison, Clown: Readings in Theatre Practice, page 29

Examples of clown world in a sentence

  • If you are not a chad you are literally an unperson in this clown world.2021, anonymous, quoted in Martin Robinson, You Are Not the Man You Are Supposed to Be: Into the Chaos of Modern Masculinity, unnumbered...
  • They say we live in a “clown world,” are stuck in ”the matrix” of “groupthink,” are suffering from a form of collective hysteria called ”mass formation psychosis” (a made-up term).2023, Naomi Klein, “Diagonal Lines”, in Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN:
  • The government was so top-heavy and bureaucratic that it created a circus show, a clown world where nothing worked as it was expected.2021 August 3, Zach Vorhies, Kent Heckenlively, Google Leaks: A Whistleblower's Exposé of Big Tech Censorship, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN...

Forms of clown world

pluralclown worlds
alternative form🤡🌏

Origin of clown world

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.

Questions about clown world

What does clown world mean?
Clown world means the current absurd and irrational state of global society from the perspective of the alt-right movement.
How do you use clown world in a sentence?
If you are not a chad you are literally an unperson in this clown world.
What part of speech is clown world?
Clown world is a noun.
What is the plural of clown world?
The plural of clown world is clown worlds.

Words near clown world in the dictionary

  1. clown shoe
  2. clown shoes
  3. clown show
  4. clown shows
  5. clown therapy
  6. clown world
  7. clown worlds
  8. clown-car primaries
  9. clown-car primary
  10. clownage
  11. clowncel

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