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A short light metallic sound
Answer for the clue "A short light metallic sound ", 5 letters:
click
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1610s, from click (v.). Click-beetle attested from 1830.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
Etymology 1 interj. The sound of a click. n. 1 A brief, sharp, not particularly loud, relatively high-pitched sound produced by the impact of something small and hard against something hard, such as by the operation of a switch, a lock or a latch, or a ...
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
Click (2007) is a work of collaborative fiction written by David Almond , Eoin Colfer , Roddy Doyle , Deborah Ellis , Nick Hornby , Margo Lanagan , Gregory Maguire , Ruth Ozeki , Linda Sue Park , and Tim Wynne-Jones . It is about a photographer named George ...
Usage examples of click.
We are aware, certainly, that she is actressy and all that, but still it does not quite click.
I tugged out the flechette pistol Alem had given me and clicked off its safety.
Perry watched the numbers click past on the altigraph, two thousandthreefiveninethirteenup and up.
When the amah saw the nearly full cup on he table, she clicked her tongue.
Axis bowed slightly to Jayme and Moryson, his right fist clenched over the golden axes on his breast, then he strode from the room, his boot heels clicking sharply on the stone floor.
He clicked the lighter shut, dropped it in his pocket, and leaned back on the edge of the table, his ankles crossed, his arms folded, frowning down over his shoulder at his bescribbled manuscript.
The thief bleated as the lightning fast head stabbed, fishhook teeth clicking shut an inch from her face.
Pa set boughten locks, with keys that went into small, shaped holes, and turned and clicked.
By the time The Shadow had flicked the spike back into the tiny bradawl and dropped the instrument into his pocket, there was a click from the doorknob.
Four nights ago, Brye related, he had been awakened by peculiar clicking noises that could only have come from the detonators of his empty bombs.
His explanation made it sound possible, even somewhat simple, as if they were looking for the boy in a section of New York and not in the wilderness and ruined towns in the thousands of square clicks of O-Zone, which was itself a byword for everything unknown and unfathomable and empty and strange.
When Clunky winked, his metallic eyelid produced a loud clicking sound.
Remembering what Farder Coram had said, she tried to focus her mind on three symbols taken at random, and clicked the hands round to point at them, and found that if she held the alethiometer just so in her palms and gazed at it in a particular lazy way, as she thought of it, the long needle would begin to move more purposefully.
The daguerreograph clicked as it impressed a daguerreotype of her empty chair.
The machine walked across the vestibule, its heels clicking against the old, much-scuffed hardwood there, and it easily went up the first two steps, which was as far as it had to go to be able to proffer the datacom to Sarah.