Meaning of clanky | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Making a clanking metallic sound.
2. Providing audible indication of imminent mechanical failure.

Examples

“My father's first car was a clanky old Volkswagen Beetle.”

“The English band Crass sounded like⟳ a bag of rocks: scrabbly drum rolls, clanky guitars, no bass end⟳, the words a jabbery Cockney caterwaul through endless stanzas of common meter.”

“"But if so, why do you see⟳ so many young children on steam trains - apart, that is, from being dragged along by their fathers, or grandfathers? "I think⟳ they enjoy⟳ them because they are simply so different, so mechanical, so hot, oily and clanky, so dirty, so 'analogue' in a digital world. They are everything modern life tries to extirpate in favour of silence, smoothness and cleanness. Kids love⟳ that.”

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