Santobono at one gulp emptied his glass and clacked his tongue.
She shook her cane at the tall man and clacked at him again.
He clacked his tongue in concern and bent over, touching Ed's wrist.
Then he clacked his tongue, and the horse resumed its rapid gait.
The reins were tightened, Nikolaeff clacked his lips, and the wagon moved on at a trot.
He bowed curtly, spun on his heel, and clacked from the room.
Britt clacked his finger in his hard palm and blurted contemptuous “Phuh!”
He clacked his tongue on his palate, and bolted this pill as best he could.
Sanders sat in the little telegraph office, and the Morse sounder rattled and clacked for half an hour.
In the long grass of the meadow across the road the insects chirped and clacked eternally.
mid-13c., not in Old English, from Old Norse klaka "to chatter," of echoic origin; cf. Dutch klakken "to clack, crack," Old High German kleken, French claquer "to clap, crack (see claque). Related: Clacked; clacking.
mid-15c., from clack (v.).
