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- interjection A
clacking sound suggesting mechanical motion, as of a railway train.
Etymologies
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Examples
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"It's low-tech and simple," he said, adding that the action of the keys and stops "gives you noise all the time -- a kind of clackety-clack."
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The machine was designed in 1949 and was intended to take some of the slog out of scientific calculations that previously were being done using the kind of clackety-clackety-kerchunk mechanical calculators you see in old movies.
The Inquirer 2009
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I examined a couple of Brownings last week at a Sportsmans Warehouse and not sure which model they were but the actions were the most clackety, cheap feeling things I'd ever held in a bolt action.
SHOT Show Report: Browning X-Bolt and Winchester Model 1894 2010
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He sat, very much like a little bird in a children's story, straight backed, light, on the edge of the seat and bent a bit forward, making a clackety sound that may have been bones.
Yard Man Tantra Bensko 2011
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I examined a couple of Brownings last week at a Sportsmans Warehouse and not sure which model they were but the actions were the most clackety, cheap feeling things I'd ever held in a bolt action.
SHOT Show Report: Browning X-Bolt and Winchester Model 1894 2010
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There were a few teletype machines chugging way faintly in the rear, but it dawned on me that the clackety-clack background sounds that you heard on TV were piped-in sound effects.
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I loved the clackety-clack of racing wheels, the hoarse whistle of an approaching engine, the excitement of a new house, another set of friends.
A House on Wheels : Anita Rau Badami talks about her novel Tamarind Woman 2010
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I've read white chapel gods. good dark, lcickety clackety stuff. well imagined world, well written story. the gods were a bit odd, but overall a book I could recommend. looking for more from this author. blog comments powered by Disqus
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When you go to that lecture, to take notes that don't go clackety, clackety, clackety clack.
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There were a few teletype machines chugging way faintly in the rear, but it dawned on me that the clackety-clack background sounds that you heard on TV were piped-in sound effects.
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