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clickety-clack

clickety-clack \clickety-clack\, clickety-click \clickety-click\n. a fast and rhythmic clicking sound, as of ``click-clack''; as, the clickety-clack of the typewriters.

Syn: clickety-clack.

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clickety-clack

n. a fast and rhythmic click-clack; "the clickety-clack of the typewriters" [syn: clickety-click]

Usage examples of "clickety-clack".

And worse than that, the spikes he was wearing were clickety-clacking on the pavement even louder than his old-time hull shoes!

He washed up and soon clickety-clacked outside—not even looking into the many shadows—walked around the building and came into their restaurant.

And they had watched somebody heft two hundred pounds of rucksacks like they were air and I'm sure if they had looked out the door or window they would have seen Heller running along, clickety-clack, without a care in the world to the subway.

Elwood Banks had booked Clickety-clack three times in the past, had never known him to be violent and rightly guessed that the young arresting officer, Roscoe Rules, had antagonized the derelict.

So clickety-clack, clank, we toured the long passages, wandered through huge, deserted halls and banged our way down filthy steps.

He clickety-clacked away on his hull shoes and was shortly swarming up a rope to complete testing the plates.

As he had, sweating away at the handles of the signal light, clickety-clacking the coded message across all those miles to the nearest signal tower, first time he'd ever done it.