clack

American  

[klak] / klæk /

verb (used without object)

1. to make a quick, sharp sound, or a succession of such sounds, as by striking or cracking.

   The loom clacked busily under her expert hands.

2. to talk rapidly and continually or with sharpness and abruptness; chatter.

3. to cluck or cackle.

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verb (used with object)

1. to utter by clacking.

2. to cause to clack.

   He clacked the cup against the saucer.

noun

1. a clacking sound.

2. something that clacks, as a rattle.

3. rapid, continual talk; chatter.

clack British  

/ klæk /

verb

1. to make or cause to make a sound like that of two pieces of wood hitting each other

2. (intr) to jabber

3. a less common word for cluck

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noun

1. a short sharp sound

2. a person or thing that produces this sound

3. chatter

4. Also called: clack valve.  a simple nonreturn valve using either a hinged flap or a ball

Etymology

Origin of clack

1200–50; Middle English clacken; imitative

Example Sentences

It requires the audience to bring their own bad vibes to shots of religious icons on the wall and long takes of Evy clacking on her laptop, unaware of a flickering light behind her.

From Los Angeles Times

"I see it - just two metres, three metres... click, clack, bang," he said.

From BBC

We saw an egret and a rabbit, and when I heard a clacking sound, Mike brightened.

From Los Angeles Times

“I like a man who drinks tomato juice. So earthy,” Raven says over the music and the clack of billiard balls.

From Literature

There's a reassuring clacking as the individual letters hit the blank white page in quick, noisy succession:

From BBC