Definitions
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- interjection A
clicking sound suggesting mechanical motion.
Etymologies
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Examples
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WUT: The new voting system uses what we call a clickety-click model.
nnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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And at least with this intern, there is never any pressure to come up with something to say, and I am simply left to enjoy the musical duet performed by our clickety-clicking pipets.
Satisfaction in Mentoring Candid Engineer 2009
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Up the stairs, clickety click, scratch and whine at the closed door.
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I want to run to the bank, grab some groceries, or simply cruise downtown without the ever-present clickety-clack of metal cleats beneath my feet.
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Tap, tap, clickety click … I am sensing we have some late starters in our midst.
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She taps the windshield with her fingernails that make a cloudy clickety click.
Party Line 2010
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Only the youngest children actually speak before "retreating into the dense clickety-clack äppärät world of their absorbed mothers and missing fathers."
Gary Shteyngart's "Super Sad True Love Story," reviewed by Ron Charles 2010
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It types as softly as a computer keyboard no clickety-clack from this machine, has a one-line LCD screen, and prints as quietly as an ink-jet printer.
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Composed of strange pings, zings, clickety-clacks and erupting plops, his latest sound work Elemental Fields seems to sing of alien worlds.
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And not the kind I knew her to have -- that's to say perfume-scarves, and heels that make clickety clackety mom sounds on tile.
Piper Weiss: My Mom The Style Icon: A Tribute to Fashionable Mothers (PHOTOS) Piper Weiss 2010
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