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clacked

clacked is the simple past and past participle of clack.

Meaning of clack

Verb

clack (third-person singular simple present clacks, present participle clacking, simple past and past participle clacked)

  1. (intransitive) To make a sudden, sharp noise, or succession of noises; to click.
    • We heard Mr. Hodson's whip clacking on the shoulders of the poor little wretches.1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 8, in Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC
  2. (transitive) To cause to make a sudden, sharp noise, or succession of noises; to click.
  3. To chatter or babble; to utter rapidly without consideration.
    • There is a generation of men, whose unweighed custome makes them clack out any thing their heedleſs fancy ſprings1623, Owen Feltham, Resolves: Divine, Moral, Political
  4. (UK) To cut the sheep's mark off (wool), to make the wool weigh less and thus yield less duty.

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Questions about clacked

What is clacked the simple past and past participle of?
Clacked is the simple past and past participle of clack.

Words near clacked in the dictionary

  1. clackas
  2. clackbox
  3. clackboxes
  4. clackdish
  5. clackdishes
  6. clacked
  7. clacker
  8. clacker balls
  9. clackerbag
  10. clackerbags
  11. clackers

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