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clack-clack, n.
Also clack-clack-clack, clack-clacking.
[Imitative; cf. clack v.1]
A repeated clacking noise.
1849Mrs. Carlyle Lett. II. 35 The infinite clatter of an old lady—clack, clack, clack. 1870‘Mark Twain’ Curious Dream (1872) 5 Presently up the street I heard a bony clack-clacking. Ibid. 6, I heard another one coming—for I recognized his clack-clack. 1916‘Boyd Cable’ Action Front 249 The clack-clack-clack of a machine-gun at close range. 1939C. S. Forester Capt. Hornblower i. xii. 137 This clack-clack-clack of women's tongues..would drive him mad. 1949F. Sargeson I saw in my Dream 134 You heard the clack-clack sound as she [sc. a bitch] stood there drinking. |