klickn.

/klɪk/

Forms: Also click, klik.

Etymology: Origin obscure. Originally used amongst American servicemen during the Vietnam War.

slang (originally U.S. Army).

A kilometre. Also plural (Australian), elliptical for ‘kilometres per hour’.In Australia usually spelt click.

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1967 H. Wentworth & S. B. Flexner Dict. Amer. Slang (new ed.) Suppl. 678/1 Click, a kilometer.

1968 New Yorker 16 Mar. 86/3 ‘There's one hootch down there about a klik south of us..,’ the ground commander said.

1969 Newsweek 28 Apr. 46/2 We went a few clicks into the fields.

1970 Time 6 July 24/1 Sipping lemonade or good Russian vodka, they trade experiences. Nothing to the north for 20 klicks (kilometers).

1982 J. Savarin Water Hole 95 They've gone sixty miles by now. Nearly a hundred klicks, if you prefer.

1984 Truckin' Life Feb. 55/1 You can't roll a smoke with one hand and scratch your ear with the other, at 90 clicks.

1988 Arena Autumn–Winter 59/2 I counted off 20 kliks on the car's speedo and stopped.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1997; most recently modified version published online December 2020).

单词	klick
释义	klickn. /klɪk/ Forms: Also click, klik. Etymology: Origin obscure. Originally used amongst American servicemen during the Vietnam War. slang (originally U.S. Army). A kilometre. Also plural (Australian), elliptical for ‘kilometres per hour’.In Australia usually spelt click. ΚΠ 1967 H. Wentworth & S. B. Flexner Dict. Amer. Slang (new ed.) Suppl. 678/1 Click, a kilometer. 1968 New Yorker 16 Mar. 86/3 ‘There's one hootch down there about a klik south of us..,’ the ground commander said. 1969 Newsweek 28 Apr. 46/2 We went a few clicks into the fields. 1970 Time 6 July 24/1 Sipping lemonade or good Russian vodka, they trade experiences. Nothing to the north for 20 klicks (kilometers). 1982 J. Savarin Water Hole 95 They've gone sixty miles by now. Nearly a hundred klicks, if you prefer. 1984 Truckin' Life Feb. 55/1 You can't roll a smoke with one hand and scratch your ear with the other, at 90 clicks. 1988 Arena Autumn–Winter 59/2 I counted off 20 kliks on the car's speedo and stopped. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1997; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.1967
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