Definitions

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  • adjective Making a clanking metallic sound.
  • adjective Providing audible indication of imminent mechanical failure.

Etymologies

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clank + -y

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Examples

  • Hitting metal crap with swords in-game should make a 'clanky' noise.

    Us Being Human 2007

  • We eat tamales and posole, and set fire to farolitos and luminarias, and sing "Vamos Todos a Belen," "Everbody Go to Bethlehem" which is a kind of clanky waltz from "La Pastorela," the classic shepherds' play.

    Archive 2006-12-01 Walter Jon Williams 2006

  • We eat tamales and posole, and set fire to farolitos and luminarias, and sing "Vamos Todos a Belen," "Everbody Go to Bethlehem" which is a kind of clanky waltz from "La Pastorela," the classic shepherds' play.

    Navidad Walter Jon Williams 2006

  • It even includes the clanky noise for extra effect.

    Typewriter Forces You To Focus While You Write | Lifehacker Australia 2009

  • Ruby knew it from the moment her excitement wore off, somewhere on the long, clanky elevated ride across Brooklyn.

    DIAMOND RUBY Joseph Wallace 2010

  • Some of them certainly deserve naturalistic explanations: the last "true" ghost story I heard, for example, clearly involved a clanky furnace rather than a restless spirit.

    Archive 2008-01-01 2008

  • It carried through the muted, dusty air of the loft and out the mow and over the clanky elevator to Mark, who shut down the elevator.

    The Dirty Life Kristin Kimball 2010

  • Some of them certainly deserve naturalistic explanations: the last "true" ghost story I heard, for example, clearly involved a clanky furnace rather than a restless spirit.

    B-Movie Catechist's Monthly Film Club: House on Haunted Hill 2008

  • Even “Button,” with its easily digested J-indie melody is clanky and bizarre.

    Néojaponisme » Blog Archive » Japanese Music: 2000-2009 2010

  • Ruby knew it from the moment her excitement wore off, somewhere on the long, clanky elevated ride across Brooklyn.

    DIAMOND RUBY Joseph Wallace 2010

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