Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun a fast and rhythmic clicking sound, as of “click-clack”.
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- noun a fast and rhythmic click-clack
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Examples
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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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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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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.
Archive 2010-01-01 2010
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Claire skipped up and down the boardwalk, her dressy shoes making a clickety-clack sound on the wood.
Sea Escape Lynne Griffin 2010
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She walks closer and must be wearing heels, because I hear their clickety-clack on the linoleum.
Losing Faith Denise Jaden 2010
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Claire skipped up and down the boardwalk, her dressy shoes making a clickety-clack sound on the wood.
Sea Escape Lynne Griffin 2010
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I love the clickety-clack, the solitude and escape from the phone and all related gadgets.
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I can still hear the clickety-clack as I struck those keys for the first time.
Carol Hoenig: The Story of Another Manual Typewriter's Journey 2009
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At least they don't go clickety-clack like they did last year.
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