clicker
Americannoun
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a person or thing that clicks
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informal a foreman in a shoe factory or printing works
Example Sentences
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Many used “remote learning” as How to Teach Gramps to Use the Clicker.
From Washington Post • Apr. 9, 2020
Others you may have heard of include Cookie Clicker, Candy Box and of course critic and academic Ian Bogost’s delightfully subversive Cow Clicker.
From Time • Feb. 25, 2016
Ian Bogost’s Cow Clicker sent up the meaninglessness of the virtual labor in Facebook games like FarmVille.
From New York Times • Jan. 27, 2015
The silly Web game Cookie Clicker helped open my eyes to this.
From Slate • Dec. 29, 2014
“Mr Lloyd did get out the Clicker, sir; but Mrs Lloyd said the second best would do, sir,” replied the footman, glad of an opportunity to change the responsibility.
From Thereby Hangs a Tale Volume One by Fenn, George Manville
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