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click noun- a gang US, 1879
A corrupted spelling of “clique.” - You know there’s a lot of streets where a whole “click” is made out of punks who can’t fight[.] — Piri Thomas, Down These Mean Streets, p. 49, 1967
- I’d been hearing about him on the street in Harlem, he was the war counselor of some click uptown on Lenox Avenue. — Edwin Torres, Carlito’s Way, p. 20, 1975
- Just remember, if you join a prison tip or click, you’ll never fit in out there again. — Seth Morgan, Homeboy, p. 153, 1990
- Everyone in here is associated in “clicks” or gangs. Since I am an outsider to these “clicks” I live a fearful existence. — Miles Harvey, The Island of Lost Maps, p. 213, 2000
- a kilometer US, 1962
Also spelt “klick” or “klik.” Vietnam war usage. - — Carl Fleischhauer, A Glossary of Army Slang, p. 30, 1968
- So the helicopter takes off and after going out maybe four clicks it crashes, and the wounded and everybody on board dies. — John Kerry, The New Soldier, p. 98, 1971
- The target must have been two clicks from us anyway. — William Pelfrey, The Big V, p. 3, 1972
- A LOH fired up a sampan on the river at 131324, that’s about a klick an a half downriver from that big tree that sticks up. — John M. Del Vecchio, The 13 Valley, p. 281, 1982
- [E]verything was transformed into Crispy Critters for half a dozen clicks in any direction you would have cared to point. — Larry Heinemann, Paco’s Story, p. 15, 1986
- I saw some bodies about half a klick this side of Phy Cam Canal. — Full Metal Jacket, p. 120, 1990
- “There I was, thinkin I was forty clicks outta Da Nang.” — Joseph Wambaugh, The Golden Orange, p. 54, 1990
- But six clicks can seem like a hundred miles / When you’re walking in Charlie’s land. — Thomas Bowen, The Longest Year, p. 40, 1990
- I have never learned to call kilometres “clicks,” and my idea of a good time is for someone else to take the wheel. — David Helwig, Living Here, p. 94, 2001
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