Usually means: Producing sharp, rhythmic clicking sounds.
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  1. clacking: Merriam-Webster
  2. clacking: Collins English Dictionary
  3. clacking: Vocabulary.com
  4. clacking: Wordnik
  5. clacking: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. clacking: Wiktionary
  7. Clacking, clacking: Dictionary.com
  8. clacking: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Clacking: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. Clacking: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  11. clacking: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  12. clacking: FreeDictionary.org
  13. clacking: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. clacking: Encyclopedia

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. clacking: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Clacking: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (clacking)

▸ noun:  A sound that clacks.

Similar:
clatter, clack valve, click, brattle, maunder, prattle, blabber, gabble, chatter, prate, more...

Opposite:
silence, quiet, hush, stillness

Types:
telegraph, Morse code, semaphore, more...

Phrases:
clacking sound, more...

Adjectives:
click, rhythmic, loud, clack, sharp, indelicate, steady, soft, metallic, rapid, incessant



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Similar:
clatter, clack valve, click, brattle, maunder, prattle, blabber, gabble, chatter, prate, more...

Opposite:
silence, quiet, hush, stillness

Types:
telegraph, Morse code, semaphore, more...

Phrases:
clacking sound, more...

Adjectives:
click, rhythmic, loud, clack, sharp, indelicate, steady, soft, metallic, rapid, incessant



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