Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A beating; a chastisement.
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- noun Something that makes a
clanking noise. - noun slang A
fib .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Use the clanker to strip the engines off the back of thirty ravens, and attach them to three good-sized rocks.
365 tomorrows » Sam Clough : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2009
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Use the clanker to strip the engines off the back of thirty ravens, and attach them to three good-sized rocks.
365 tomorrows » 2008 » March : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2008
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The clanker stuff was decent, but I was amazed at how well thought out the Darwinist animals were.
Review: Leviathan by Scott Westerfeld Neth 2009
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"'T is nothing but a big Whig clanker, I'll be bound!" snorted Mr. Meredith.
Janice Meredith Paul Leicester Ford 1883
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"What clanker have we here?" exclaimed the squire.
Janice Meredith Paul Leicester Ford 1883
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The passionate Anthony also got into a minor argument with Chris Andersen on the bench in the second quarter, after Birdman hoisted a 20-foot clanker.
Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local By Benjamin Hochman 2010
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The passionate Anthony also got into a minor argument with Chris Andersen on the bench in the second quarter, after Birdman hoisted a 20-foot clanker.
Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local By Benjamin Hochman 2010
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All I know is that I tested these irons extra-long and extra-carefully, waiting for the inevitable bone-jarring clanker.
unknown title 2009
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I returned the shockbox to Milo’s pocket, and retrieved my magnets from the junked clanker.
365 tomorrows » Sam Clough : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2009
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I returned the shockbox to Milo’s pocket, and retrieved my magnets from the junked clanker.
365 tomorrows » 2008 » October : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2008
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Referring to an AI bot as a "clanker" (or a "wireback," or a "cogsucker") has emerged as a niche, irreverent internet phenomenon that illuminates a broader disdain for the way AI is overtaking technology, labor, and culture.
"Clankers": A robot slur emerges to express disdain for AI's takeover
tankhughes commented on the word clanker
a robot worker - especially that answers an automated line like it's a human employee https://www.reddit.com/r/meirl/comments/1m94unf/meirl/
July 26, 2025
alexz commented on the word clanker
I'm seeing clanker referred to human bots in message boards and social media now.
I also saw it was a general insult against the bots in computer games as well.
August 18, 2025