Usually means: Mistake, often embarrassing or noticeable.
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General (18 matching dictionaries)
  1. clanger: Merriam-Webster
  2. clanger: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. clanger: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. clanger: Collins English Dictionary
  5. clanger: Vocabulary.com
  6. clanger: Wordnik
  7. clanger: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. clanger: Wiktionary
  9. clanger: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. clanger: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. clanger: Dictionary.com
  12. Clanger: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. clanger: Rhymezone
  14. clanger: FreeDictionary.org
  15. clanger: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. clanger: TheFreeDictionary.com
  17. clanger: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. clanger: Idioms

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. clanger, clanger: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. clanger: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  3. clanger: Urban Dictionary

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noun:  Something that clangs; an alarm bell (also figuratively).
noun:  The clapper of a bell, anything that strikes a bell or other metal object to make a ringing sound.
noun:  (chiefly UK, Commonwealth, Ireland, informal, often in the phrase drop a clanger) A very noticeable mistake; an attention-getting faux pas.
noun:  (Australia, Australian rules football) A mistake made by a player; counted in the game statistics in the category "errors including frees against".
noun:  An early hi-hat consisting of cymbals mounted on the rim of a bass drum and struck with an arm on the drum's pedal.
noun:  (Australia, entomology) A cicada, Psaltoda claripennis, of New South Wales and Queensland, having an upper body of green and brown and clear wings with green veins.
noun:  Short for Bedfordshire clanger. [A dish originating from the English county of Bedfordshire, an elongated suet pudding with meat in one side and jam in the other.]

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