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clack
[ klak ]
verb (used without object)
- 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.
- to talk rapidly and continually or with sharpness and abruptness; chatter.
- to cluck or cackle.
verb (used with object)
- to utter by clacking.
- to cause to clack:
He clacked the cup against the saucer.
noun
- a clacking sound.
- something that clacks, as a rattle.
- rapid, continual talk; chatter.
clack
/ klæk /
verb
- to make or cause to make a sound like that of two pieces of wood hitting each other
- intr to jabber
- a less common word for cluck
noun
- a short sharp sound
- a person or thing that produces this sound
- chatter
- Also calledclack valve a simple nonreturn valve using either a hinged flap or a ball
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I need to get a head shot so he won't have a chance to clack himself off [blow himself up].
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Mr. Cunningham's description of the drawings of the natives in a cavern on Clack's Island.
This rock has some resemblance to that of Clack Island above-mentioned.
He listened, but I do not know whether he heard much of my clack, and I got very tired of it myself at last.
Up them she went, flattening herself against the stone as she caught the faint clack of muffled oars.
She answered with the same clutter and clack of unknown syllables, growing more and more excited as the dialogue continued.
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