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clicked

/klɪkt/

clicked is the simple past and past participle of click.

Meaning of click

Verb

click (third-person singular simple present clicks, present participle clicking, simple past and past participle clicked)

  1. (transitive) To cause to make a click; to operate (a switch, etc) so that it makes a click.
    • [Jove] clicked all his marble thumbs.1603 (first performance), Ben[jamin] Jonson, Seianus His Fall, London: […] G[eorge] Elld, for Thomas Thorpe, published 1605, →OCLC, (please specify the page)
  2. (intransitive) To emit a click.
    • Surely that picture will be fixed for ever, for I heard the cameras clicking round me like crickets in a field.1929, Arthur Conan Doyle, When the World Screamed
  3. (UK) To snap one's fingers.
  4. To press and release (a button on a computer mouse).
  5. (transitive) To select a software item using, usually, but not always, the pressing of a mouse button.
  6. (transitive) To visit (a website).
    • Visit a location, call, or click www.example.com.

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Words formed from clicked

Phrases with clicked

Words that rhyme with clicked

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Questions about clicked

What is clicked the simple past and past participle of?
Clicked is the simple past and past participle of click.
How do you pronounce clicked?
Clicked is pronounced /klɪkt/.

Words near clicked in the dictionary

  1. clickbaits
  2. clickbaity
  3. clickbaityness
  4. clickbeetle
  5. clickbeetles
  6. clicked
  7. clicked for
  8. clicked into gear
  9. clicked off
  10. clicked one's tongue
  11. clicked through

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