clacker
Britishnoun
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an object that makes a clacking sound
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dialect the mouth
Example Sentences
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An online flier for an October party in this Belgian beach town cursed the coronavirus and invited people to dance and drink again, to “get your clacker back from the attic” and kick off Carnival season.
From Washington Post
For example, the MAX crew-alerting system activates a “clacker” making a very loud clicking sound to warn pilots when the jet is flying too fast.
From Seattle Times
And Ewbank pointedly noted that on the Ethiopian MAX crash flight, the clacker “was sounding continuously during the last minutes of flight.”
From Seattle Times
On Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 that crashed in March 2019, killing 157 people, the stick shaker vibrated throughout the six-minute flight, indicating the plane was going too slow and close to a stall, while simultaneously a loud clacker was sounding in the cockpit — warning the pilots they were going too fast.
From Seattle Times
Besides the stick shaker they heard repeated loud “DON’T SINK” warnings that the jet was too close to the ground; a “clacker” making a very loud clicking sound to signal the jet was going too fast; and multiple warning lights telling the crew the speed, altitude and other readings on their instruments were unreliable.
From Seattle Times
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