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Definition of Clickety-clack
1. Noun. A fast and rhythmic click-clack. "The clickety-clack of the typewriters"
Lexicographical Neighbors of Clickety-clack
Literary usage of Clickety-clack
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. John Bull, Limited by George Wallingford Hills (1914)
"The clack-clack is comparatively mild and modest when anyone is walking quietly
along, but when there is a hurry call the "clogs" go clickety-clack, ..."
2. A General Dictionary of Provincialisms by William Holloway (1840)
"voluble. Norf. Suff. clickety-clack, adv. To go clickety- clack, is to make the
noise which iron pattens do. Hants. To CLIM, vn To climb. North. South. ..."
3. The Phono-bretto: (phonograph Libretto) The Indispensible Companion of the (1919)
"... Hear the clack, clickety clack, clickety clack, clickety clack, Hear that
rattle, rattle, rattle on the railroad track, Hear the whistle! hear the bell! ..."
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