klick
/klɪk/
klick noun: a kilometer. Also the alternative spelling of click.
Noun (1)
klick (plural klicks)
- A kilometer.
- Several klicks closer, the ruins of the City of Poets rose jaggedly against the skyline.1990, Dan Simmons, The Fall of Hyperion, 1st edition, New York: Doubleday, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 165
- an asteroid between one and three kilometers wide had slammed into the ground at fifteen klicks per second.2002 May, Robert J. Sawyer, Hominids (The Neanderthal Parallax; 1), Tor, →ISBN, page 82
- Kilometres per hour.
Noun (2) capitalized: KLICK
KLICK (uncountable)
- Acronym of keratosis linearis with ichthyosis congenita and sclerosing keratoderma.
Also used as
klick is also the alternative spelling of click.
Forms of klick
| plural | klicks |
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Origin of klick
* Most likely a pseudo-condensed pronunciation of kilometer, being a suitably short word emphasizing k+l instead of /keɪ/ alone (the same principle as with military spelling alphabets, but also clearly distinguished from kilo (/kiːloʊ/) for kilogram). * Possibly onomatopoeic of the sound of a military odometer. When a soldier would complete a mark, they would signal to their commander and denote movement of 1,000 meters by hoisting up their rifle and moving the gas regulator with their thumb, which made a "click" the commander could hear.
Words that rhyme with klick
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- nick
- flick
- sick
- unpick
- chick
- dick
- rick
- vic
- wick
- crick
- ick
- shtick
- snick
- squick
- stich
- strick
- unstick
- blick
- hick
- inwick
- mick
- outwick
- pic
- Roman brick
- shlick
- sic
- SLC
- spic
- thicc
- tic
- Vick
- yardstick
- cinematographic
- fic
- flic
- frick
- gick
- hard tick
- hic
- hysteric
- Laconophilic
- megalographic
- miskick
- nic
- rainstick
- restart kick
- schtik
- shift stick
Questions about klick
- What does klick mean?
- Klick means a kilometer.
- What part of speech is klick?
- Klick is a noun.
- How do you pronounce klick?
- Klick is pronounced /klɪk/.
- What is the plural of klick?
- The plural of klick is klicks.
Words near klick in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: klick (page history and authors); KLICK (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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