clicker
English
Etymology
From click + -er.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈklɪkə/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈklɪkɚ/
Audio (AU) (file) - Rhymes: -ɪkə(ɹ)
Noun
clicker (plural clickers)
- (slang) The remote-control device used to change settings on a television set, VCR, or other electronic equipment.
- We have a clicker for the TV, one for the VCR, one for the DVD player and another one that does it all.
- An electronic device used by individual students in the classroom to respond to multiple-choice questions, etc.
- A person who cuts out the uppers of shoes from pieces of leather using a flexible knife that clicks as it changes direction.
- A machine that cuts materials using a steel rule die. The name comes from the sound (click) when the material is cut. May be hand, pneumatic, or hydraulic powered.
- A signalling device used by military forces. Pressed between thumb and fingers, it makes a small but distinctive click understood by other members of a unit.
- A small mechanical device that produces a clicking sound, used in dog training.
- Someone who clicks, for example using a computer mouse.
- (UK, obsolete) Someone who stands by a shop door to invite people to buy; a tout[1].
- 1709, Thomas d'Urfey (lyrics and music), “The Character of a Seat's-man”:
- Let Clickers bark on the whole Day
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- (printing, obsolete) One who has charge of the work of a companionship[2].
- (printing, historical) An employee who locks the type in the form to make it ready for printing.
Derived terms
- ball clicker
- clicker counter
- clicker game
- clickership
- cow-clicker
- slam-clicker
Translations
an electronic device used by individual students in the classroom to respond to multiple-choice questions, etc.
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References
- 1873, John Camden Hotten, The Slang Dictionary
- clicker in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- clicker in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
Anagrams
- clerick