clank

noun

1. 1

   A loud, hard sound of metal hitting metal.

2. 2

   Synonym of clanker (“a robot or artificial intelligence”).

   [NO] CLANKS ⇨

   [S]he […] finds herself surrounded by three rather repulsive young males. Even in her fear, her curves are noteworthy. “What do you want?” she cries. “Are you a clank, baby?”

   Well, even on earth (depending on the continuity) he's been up against evil clones and/or tinkered clones of himself, or pseudo-Krypotonian constructs or clanks.

verb

1. 1

   To make a clanking sound

   The chains clanked.

   Slung from his shoulders clanks a two-handed sword, the pommel a huge star-ruby carven in the image of a heart, for the heart is his sign and symbol.

   Far less straightforward was what happened at about 0130 on Friday June 2 1944, as a long goods train was chuffing and clanking its unhurried way across the darkened landscape towards Soham, from Ely.

2. 2

   To cause to sound with a clank.

   The prisoners clank their chains.

Forms

plural

clanks

past tense

clanked

past participle

clanked

present participle

clanking

third person singular

clanks