Clack

Quick meaning: Clack is a noun meaning An abrupt, sharp sound, especially one made by two hard objects colliding repetitively; a sound midway between a click and a clunk.

Meaning

An abrupt, sharp sound, especially one made by two hard objects colliding repetitively; a sound midway between a click and a clunk.

More Meanings

1. Anything that causes a clacking noise, such as the clapper of a mill, or a clack valve.
2. Chatter; prattle.
3. (colloquial) The tongue.
4. (intransitive) To make a sudden, sharp noise, or succession of noises; to click.
5. (transitive) To cause to make a sudden, sharp noise, or succession of noises; to click.
6. To chatter or babble; to utter rapidly without consideration.
7. (UK) To cut the sheep's mark off (wool), to make the wool weigh less and thus yield less duty.

Example Sentences

whose chief intent is to vaunt his spiritual clack

We heard Mr. Hodson's whip clacking on the shoulders of the poor little wretches.

[He] walked quite jauntily across the courtyard to the distant door, his sandals clacking against the marble.

Only the chickens clacked at the Saturday quiet and fat mouse-minded cats licked whiskers on the empty steps.

Word Forms

• clacks
• clacking
• clacked

Synonyms for clack

Depending on context, synonyms include prattle, maunder, palaver, clatter, chatter, gabble.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include click, clatter, brattle, maunder, gabble, prattle.

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