clack
Americanverb (used without object)
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to make a quick, sharp sound, or a succession of such sounds, as by striking or cracking.
The loom clacked busily under her expert hands.
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to talk rapidly and continually or with sharpness and abruptness; chatter.
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to cluck or cackle.
verb (used with object)
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to utter by clacking.
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to cause to clack.
He clacked the cup against the saucer.
noun
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a clacking sound.
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something that clacks, as a rattle.
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rapid, continual talk; chatter.
verb
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to make or cause to make a sound like that of two pieces of wood hitting each other
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(intr) to jabber
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a less common word for cluck
noun
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a short sharp sound
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a person or thing that produces this sound
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chatter
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Also called: clack valve. a simple nonreturn valve using either a hinged flap or a ball
Etymology
Origin of clack
1200–50; Middle English clacken; imitative
Example Sentences
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"I see it - just two metres, three metres... click, clack, bang," he said.
From BBC
We saw an egret and a rabbit, and when I heard a clacking sound, Mike brightened.
From Los Angeles Times
“I like a man who drinks tomato juice. So earthy,” Raven says over the music and the clack of billiard balls.
From Literature
There's a reassuring clacking as the individual letters hit the blank white page in quick, noisy succession:
From BBC
“Another one for the vocabulary list, I see, Nell,” my aunt said with a sigh, the railroad tracks clacking below our feet as we rolled east across Indiana.
From Literature
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