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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.
Origin1960s: 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.
Origin1960s: of unknown origin; the term was originally used in the Vietnam War. |