klickn.
/klɪk/ slang (originally U.S. Army).
A kilometre. Also plural (Australian), elliptical for ‘kilometres per hour’.In Australia usually spelt click.
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1967 H. Wentworth & S. B. Flexner Dict. Amer. Slang (new ed.) Suppl. 678/1 Click, a kilometer.
1968 New Yorker 16 Mar. 86/3 ‘There's one hootch down there about a klik south of us..,’ the ground commander said.
1969 Newsweek 28 Apr. 46/2 We went a few clicks into the fields.
1970 Time 6 July 24/1 Sipping lemonade or good Russian vodka, they trade experiences. Nothing to the north for 20 klicks (kilometers).
1982 J. Savarin Water Hole 95 They've gone sixty miles by now. Nearly a hundred klicks, if you prefer.
1984 Truckin' Life Feb. 55/1 You can't roll a smoke with one hand and scratch your ear with the other, at 90 clicks.
1988 Arena Autumn–Winter 59/2 I counted off 20 kliks on the car's speedo and stopped.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1997; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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