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  • interjection Nonce variation of the word click, usually indicating one of a series of clicking sounds.

Etymologies

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click +‎ -ity

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Examples

  • She first thought about this while waiting for the Cicero Avenue Orange line to clickity clackity its way into the city, blue sparks showering the neighborhoods that surrounded the rusted iron stilts of elevated tracks.

    Appreciating Her Situation Uniquely Joe Deir 2011

  • As I entered the conference room, armed with my trusty red leather notebook and pen, I was greeted by a sea of laptop screens and handheld mobiles blinking away, and a steady clickity-clack of fingers flying over keyboards like hummingbird wings.

    Kari Henley: Mommy Bloggers Are Going to Rule the World Kari Henley 2011

  • As I entered the conference room, armed with my trusty red leather notebook and pen, I was greeted by a sea of laptop screens and handheld mobiles blinking away, and a steady clickity-clack of fingers flying over keyboards like hummingbird wings.

    Kari Henley: Mommy Bloggers Are Going to Rule the World Kari Henley 2011

  • I remember having to scramble to gather up more reading material for the next phase of the journey, the New York, to Albany, to Buffalo leg, and its twelve interminable hours of clickity clack.

    Matthew Yglesias » The Sweet Spot 2010

  • As I entered the conference room, armed with my trusty red leather notebook and pen, I was greeted by a sea of laptop screens and handheld mobiles blinking away, and a steady clickity-clack of fingers flying over keyboards like hummingbird wings.

    Kari Henley: Mommy Bloggers Are Going to Rule the World Kari Henley 2011

  • As I entered the conference room, armed with my trusty red leather notebook and pen, I was greeted by a sea of laptop screens and handheld mobiles blinking away, and a steady clickity-clack of fingers flying over keyboards like hummingbird wings.

    Kari Henley: Mommy Bloggers Are Going to Rule the World Kari Henley 2011

  • M. I.A.'s new album opens with the familiar clickity-clickity of fingertips keystroking a laptop.

    Album review: M.I.A.'s 'Maya,' missing in action 2010

  • In Africa, zebras and wildebeests struggle to escape chomping crocodile jaws in slow motion, while on "a tiny island in the Indian Ocean," giant red crabs "the size of dinner plates" are speeded up as they make their funny, clickity ways to the sea, there to reproduce before retreating to land again.

    TV preview of 'Great Migrations' on National Geographic Channel Tom Shales 2010

  • Are there even any definitions of the term that might at least give me a starting point of sorts? clickity

    What is transfeminism? 2008

  • M. I.A.'s new album opens with the familiar clickity-clickity of fingertips keystroking a laptop.

    Album review: M.I.A., "/\/\ /\ Y /\" 2010

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