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单词 klick
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Definition of klick in English:

klick

(also klik)
noun klɪkklik
informal
  • A kilometre.

    〈非正式〉千米,公里

    about 200 klicks northwest of Moscow
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Altitude continued to drop, below 5,000, the airspeed at just over 700 klicks.
    • When he was one klick away, a message came through.
    • He said that the nest was at an old church up river about twenty klicks from here.
    • Drew only lived a few klicks away so she was going to walk.
    • By the odometer it's about 1.5 kilometres, or half a klick shorter than the other route, which ends up in the same place, but approaches it from the north.
    • The package store he hit was in Jackson Corner, not ten klicks from where we sit.
    • They had been dropped off a few klicks from the city gates.
    • It was about 20 klicks away and the jeep was closing at about 200 KPH.
    • Yesterday I collected the car from Eblens and off I drove, all pristine and only 16 klicks on the dial.
    • And unless you've suddenly developed the ability to read minds from thirty klicks off, I'm pretty sure you don't know either.
    • James provided Roger with cover, excluding all enemy fighters within three klicks.
    • Karl gunned the LTD, quickly accelerating to a hundred and twenty klicks, and disappeared around a curve.
    • I made camp several klicks further down the river valley.
    • Karl followed the pair, speeding up to forty klicks when the trail led onto a dirt road.
    • The war seemed distant at that moment, as the sun sank before me, casting a rich amber light on the rooftops of a small cluster of buildings half a klick ahead.
    • Almost exactly three klicks after that, Howard found the second intersection, marked by a sign, and turned north onto a rutted, unpaved road.

Origin

1960s: of unknown origin; the term was originally used in the Vietnam War.

Definition of klick in US English:

klick

(also click)
nounklik
informal
  • A kilometer.

    〈非正式〉千米,公里

    about 200 klicks northwest of Moscow
    Example sentencesExamples
    • The war seemed distant at that moment, as the sun sank before me, casting a rich amber light on the rooftops of a small cluster of buildings half a klick ahead.
    • They had been dropped off a few klicks from the city gates.
    • The package store he hit was in Jackson Corner, not ten klicks from where we sit.
    • I made camp several klicks further down the river valley.
    • Karl gunned the LTD, quickly accelerating to a hundred and twenty klicks, and disappeared around a curve.
    • James provided Roger with cover, excluding all enemy fighters within three klicks.
    • Altitude continued to drop, below 5,000, the airspeed at just over 700 klicks.
    • Drew only lived a few klicks away so she was going to walk.
    • By the odometer it's about 1.5 kilometres, or half a klick shorter than the other route, which ends up in the same place, but approaches it from the north.
    • He said that the nest was at an old church up river about twenty klicks from here.
    • When he was one klick away, a message came through.
    • It was about 20 klicks away and the jeep was closing at about 200 KPH.
    • Almost exactly three klicks after that, Howard found the second intersection, marked by a sign, and turned north onto a rutted, unpaved road.
    • Yesterday I collected the car from Eblens and off I drove, all pristine and only 16 klicks on the dial.
    • Karl followed the pair, speeding up to forty klicks when the trail led onto a dirt road.
    • And unless you've suddenly developed the ability to read minds from thirty klicks off, I'm pretty sure you don't know either.

Origin

1960s: of unknown origin; the term was originally used in the Vietnam War.

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