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clicker

American  
[klik-er] / ˈklɪk ər /

noun

  1. someone or something that clicks.

  2. remote control.


clicker British  
/ ˈklɪkə /

noun

  1. a person or thing that clicks

  2. informal a foreman in a shoe factory or printing works

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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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

Your description of Cookie Clicker also describes, at least mechanically, one of my favorite games of the year.

From Slate • Dec. 31, 2014

Responding to a player who complained that Cow Clicker was no longer "a very fun game", Bogost replied, "It wasn't very fun before."

From The Guardian • May 10, 2013

A little south of Liskeard, on the way to Menheniot, is Clicker Tor, a mass of serpentine rock resembling the rocks of the Lizard.

From Nooks and Corners of Cornwall by Scott, C. A. Dawson

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