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clickety-clack
[ klik-i-tee-klak ]
noun
- a rhythmic, swiftly paced succession of alternating clicks and clacks, as the sound produced by the wheels of a train moving over tracks.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of clickety-clack1
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Example Sentences
I was plunged on the first day—not into “clickety-clack,” but “slippety-slip.”
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Clickety clack, clickety clack, sang the loom; but you never saw such a tangle as the tangle made by the thin black cat.
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Tony was able to read, “over to school,” such excerpts as the following: “The gingerbreadboy went clickety-clack down the road.”
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Clickety clack, clickety clack; the loom never stopped for a moment.
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“Those bright things that go clickety-clack,” said the bear.
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