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clinkers

/kling-ker/US // ˈklɪŋ kər //UK // (ˈklɪŋkə) //

叮叮当当,碰瓷者,叮当,碰瓷

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    Slang.

    • : any mistake or error.
    • : something that is a failure; a product of inferior quality.
    • : a wrong note in a musical performance.
    • : British. someone or something wonderful or exceedingly well-liked.

Synonyms & Antonyms

as inclamor
as invociferation
as indissension
as indissent

Examples

  • They were all clinker built of yellow pine, double fastened with copper nails, clinched over rooves.

  • "Well, we are here," said Artie, after Clinker's wound had been examined and dressed.

  • They, the clinker canoes, are easily tightened when they spring a leak through being rattled over stones in rapids.

  • And now I will give my reasons for preferring the clinker-built cedar boat, or canoe, to any other.

  • There is only one objection to the clinker-built canoe that occurs to me as at all plausible.