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clacker

noun · 4 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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noun

Meaning 1

A percussion instrument that makes a clacking noise.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Topics: entertainment, lifestyle, music

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2

noun

Meaning 2

Any device that makes a clacking noise.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: broadly

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3

noun

Meaning 3

A testicle.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: UK, US, in-plural, often, slang, vulgar

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noun

Meaning 4

The anus.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: Australia, New-Zealand, slang, vulgar

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Meaning relationships

Synonyms: a-hole, anus, arsehole, arse, asscunt, asshole, asspussy, ass, back alley, back door, back passage, balloon knot, batty, batty hole, bootyhole, bottom, brown eye, browneye, bumhole, bum, bung-hole, bunghole, bungus, butthole, buttonhole, chocolate channel, chocolate starfish, chuff, cinnamon ring, clacka, clacker, cornhole, craphole, cumhole, dinger, ding, dock, dookie hole, dung funnel, exit hole, fartbox, farthole, fourth point of contact, freckle, fuckhole, fudge tunnel, fundament, Gary Glitter, gump stump, Hershey highway, jacksie, jacksy, keister, leather cheerio, love hole, other end, poop chute, pooper, poophole, rear exit, rectum, ringpiece, rosebud, rusty sheriff's badge, shithole, shitter, sluthole, smelly freckle, starfish, stinkhole, tewel, tooter, tradesman's entrance, turd cutter, vent, wazoo, where the sun don't shine, windpipe, ying-yang

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History

Etymology

Etymology tree English clack Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -āriusnom. Latin -āriusbor. Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz Proto-West Germanic *-ārī Old English -ere Middle English -ere English -er English clacker From clack + -er.

Possibly a deformation of cloaca. Alternatively of imitative origin, from the sound of farting or testicles clacking.