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