▪ I. klick, -er, -et
obs. ff. click, etc.
▪ II. klick, n. slang (orig. U.S. Army).
(klɪk)
Also click, klik.
[Origin obscure. Orig. used amongst American servicemen during the Vietnam War.]
A kilometre. Also pl. (Austral.), ellipt. for ‘kilometres per hour’.
In Australia usu. spelt click.
| 1967 Wentworth & Flexner Dict. Amer. Slang 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. |