click off

transitive verb

1

: to click out

click off a message on the typewriter

2

: to record usually with clicks

the speedometer clicked off the miles

3

: to list or enumerate unhesitatingly or with unerring precision

clicked off his facts and figures without a slip

—E. P. Snow

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