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clacker

clacker noun: a percussion instrument that makes a clacking noise.

Noun (1)

clacker (plural clackers)

  1. A percussion instrument that makes a clacking noise.
  2. (broadly) Any device that makes a clacking noise.
    • The last leg of one of our runs was Valencia to Madrid, a straight-line distance of about 93 nautical miles. A competition developed as to who could fly it in the least amount of time. For a couple of weeks, I held the record at 24 minutes, but then another captain did it in 23. One captain claimed...2020 February 3, Terry Liittschwager, “Talking of Flying”, in Terry Liittschwager's Officially Unofficial, Curiously Chaotic Website, archived from the original on 21 Feb 2021, Night Freight in Spain

Noun (2)

clacker (plural clackers)

  1. (UK, US, in plural, often, slang, vulgar) A testicle.
  2. (Australia, New Zealand, slang, vulgar) The anus.
    • Someone tell me one thing that's good about sand. It gets so hot sometimes you can't even walk on it, it gets into your eyes when it's blowy, it gets stuck to the hairs on my back, it gets up your nose, in your ears and of course, worst of all, it gets up your clacker.1995, Paul Vautin, Turn It Up!, Sydney: Pan Macmillan Australia, page 95

Synonyms of clacker

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Forms of clacker

pluralclackers
alternative formclacka

Origin of clacker

From clack + -er.

Possibly a deformation of cloaca. Alternatively of imitative origin, from the sound of farting or testicles clacking.

Words formed from clacker

Questions about clacker

What does clacker mean?
Clacker means a percussion instrument that makes a clacking noise.
What part of speech is clacker?
Clacker is a noun.
What is the plural of clacker?
The plural of clacker is clackers.

Words near clacker in the dictionary

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

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