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clown world en · NOUN

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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.

Meanings

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:
   • 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:
   • But he wasn't a chad. 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 page
2. (figuratively) A crazy world or environment.
   • 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:
   • > 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 do with reality. 2000 October 24, ., “Chumley is a big fat idiot (part 2)”, in rec.arts.bodyart (Usenet), retrieved 14 Jan 2022:
   • The government was so top-heavy and bureaucratic that it created a circus show, a clown world where nothing worked as it was expected. It wasn't simply that there was waste and corruption everywhere. The most corrupted part of that life ... 2021 August 3, Zach Vorhies, Kent Heckenlively, Google Leaks: A Whistleblower's Exposé of Big Tech Censorship, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 64:
3. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see clown, world.
   • He said that my essence was grotesque, that I would be a part of the clown world naturally, that I could organically belong to a circus or any other environment, because the grotesque is not limited to or contained in one genre – it has no boundaries. 2015, Slava Polunin, edited by David Bridel and Ezra Lebank, Clowns: In Conversation with Modern Masters, page 49:
   • 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:
   • 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:

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Relateds

globohomo · multiculti · Evropa (antithesis, an imagined alt-right utopia) · Swedistan

Translations (5)

de Clownswelt (clown world) · ru мир клоунов (clown world) · ja ピエロ世界 (clown world) · nl clown wereld (clown world) · ru клоунский мир (clown world)

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