• a United States youth subculture of the 1950s; rejected possessions or regular work or traditional dress; for communal living and psychedelic drugs and anarchism; favored modern forms of jazz (e.g., bebop)
• A brief, sharp, not particularly loud, relatively high-pitched sound produced by the impact of something small and hard against something hard, such as by the operation of a switch, a lock or a latch, or a finger pressed against the thumb and then released to strike the hand.
• An ingressive sound made by coarticulating a velar or uvular closure with another closure.
• Sound made by a dolphin.
• The act of operating a switch, etc., so that it clicks.
• The act of pressing a button on a computer mouse, both as a physical act and a reaction in the software.
• A pawl or similar catch.
• A detent, pawl, or ratchet, such as that which catches the cogs of a ratchet wheel to prevent backward motion.
• A rawhide-lashed sledge with wooden crossbars and runners, first invented and used by the Inuit of Northern Canada, but since used also by non-Inuit people.
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