to clack
5
7.2
- verb
- /klæk/
:
chasquear
- At first, I was surprised, but then I heard my mother's heels clacking down the hallway.
- teeth clack
- wheels clack
- click-clack
You go to Walmart, you look at all of the, they like clacking back and forth.
- You go to Walmart, you look at all of the, they like clacking back and forth.
Examples
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Telephones rang like crickets, and print machines clacked and chattered like willets disturbed on a nest.
Fiction book (1991) -
Only Kadoh trotted beside her, his hunting knife clacking against his narrow hips.
Fiction book (1995) -
Branches that clack in autumn wind, I am not fitting under.
Fiction book (2002) -
Three girls pile out of the train and clack down the icy stairs.
Fiction book (1992) -
Ms. Messersmith's coffee cup clacked hard on the work table.
Fiction book (1994) -
People swarmed on the floor, their boots clacking loudly as if they were running instead of dancing.
Fiction book (1995) -
The crabs inside scuffled and clamored, their shells clacking against each other.
Fiction book (1997) -
Dinin, the drider, shifted away from the fallen drow, his hard-skinned legs clacking against the stone.
Fiction book (1992) -
As she walked through the hallway, her heels made a sharp clack against the tiled floor.
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In the quiet room, the sound of typewriters clacked rhythmically as the journalists worked.
Synonyms
151
2.2
To shake something so it makes short, sharp noises
92
1.0
Make a short sharp sound like a small tap
29
3.9
To make a loud rattling sound by hitting hard things together
16
5.1
To make a short, sharp sound by hitting glass or metal together
A loud rattling sound when metal or hard things hit each other
Compounds
1
7.7
A quick series of soft clicking sounds from machines or hard things hitting together
How Sharp
Surface Forms
Etymology
Clack is an old sound word that copies short, sharp noises, much like the familiar word click or the 'clack' of a typewriter. That is why to clack can mean to make repeated clicking or rattling sounds.