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n. (plural of clacker English)
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Clackers (also known as Clankers, Ker-Bangers, and numerous other names) were toys popular in the late 1960s and early 1970s. They consisted of two plastic spheres suspended on string which, when swung up and down, banged against each other, making a clacking sound. Clackers are similar in appearance to bolas, the Argentinian weapon.
They are formed out of two hard plastic balls, each about two inches (5 cm) in diameter, attached to a tab with a sturdy string. The player holds the tab with the balls hanging below and through up-and-down hand motion makes the two balls swing apart and back together, making the clacking noise that gives the toy its name. With practice one can make the balls swing so that they knock together both above and below the hand.
Clackers may refer to:
- Clackers, a 1970s toy
- A term for editorial staff at the fictional fashion magazine in the novel The Devil Wears Prada
- A term for computer operators in the novel The Difference Engine.
- Clackers cereal, a type of cereal made by General Mills
- A Clapboard (film), used in film production that "clacks" when identifying scene and take information.
- A term for testicles.
- A nickname for a handheld switch used to trigger command detonated explosives.
Usage examples of "clackers".
OP, Pendergast selected two of four claymore clackers, one in each hand.
Garric turned the bellwether, a grizzled ram with wooden clackers around his neck.
CHAPTER 17 The mockingbird perched on the dogwood continued its series of liquid calls even when Sharina rattled the clackers only ten feet away.