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Etymology
From a non-alcoholic drink called w:Claytons|Claytons promoted in Australia and New Zealand in the 1980s as "the drink you have when you're not having a drink". It didn't impress consumers and the term came to be represent substitution.
Adjective
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- context|AU|NZ|colloquial Inferior substitute, unsatisfactory compromise, or ersatz.
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