Claytons
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See also: Clayton's
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Etymology 1
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
Claytons (not comparable)
- (Australia, New Zealand, informal) Inferior substitute, unsatisfactory compromise, or ersatz.
- 2000 April 22, Sir Just Me, “Weekly UK News Bulletin (Apr 17-21)”, in rec.sport.rugby.league (Usenet):
- Cheer up bro, it was a Claytons test anyway.
- 2013 March 18, Yahoo!7 Sport, “Let's put the summer of scandal behind us”, in Yahoo!7, retrieved 2013-05-17:
- 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.
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Etymology 2
Proper noun
Claytons