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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