clacked; clacking; clacks
2
: to make an abrupt striking sound or series of sounds
1
: to cause to make a clatter
2
: to produce with a chattering sound
specifically
: blab
clacker
noun
Examples of clack in a Sentence
Verb
I heard her heels clacking down the hall.
He clacked his teeth together.
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Sandra Gonzalez, CNN Money, 3 Sep. 2025
The doc plunges straight into the stories that Hersh broke back in those keyboard-clacking days, beginning with his exposé on the fallout of nerve gas testing at an Army facility in Utah.
—Sheri Linden, HollywoodReporter, 29 Aug. 2025
Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 25 Aug. 2025
In the Thirties, the clickety-clack of a manual typewriter—especially in the summer, when the windows were open—would have echoed up and down the quiet, narrow streets of Georgetown.
—Jeff Kisseloff, Harpers Magazine, 20 Aug. 2025
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Verb
The show pays tribute to that feeling in scenes throughout, but perhaps none more than a flashback scene in the pilot that shows the Truth Teller in its prime – a newsroom brimming with reporters, typewriters clacking, a printing press running at full speed, a deadline at hand.
—Sandra Gonzalez, CNN Money, 3 Sep. 2025
The doc plunges straight into the stories that Hersh broke back in those keyboard-clacking days, beginning with his exposé on the fallout of nerve gas testing at an Army facility in Utah.
—Sheri Linden, HollywoodReporter, 29 Aug. 2025
Noun
All of those slurps and clacks and growls and squishes are amplified and enhanced in Noah Hawley’s new FX series to delicious, nightmarish results.
—Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 25 Aug. 2025
In the Thirties, the clickety-clack of a manual typewriter—especially in the summer, when the windows were open—would have echoed up and down the quiet, narrow streets of Georgetown.
—Jeff Kisseloff, Harpers Magazine, 20 Aug. 2025
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“Clack.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/clack. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.
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