Meanings
klick1
plural klicks
- slanggovernmentA kilometer.
No siree, Bob, we are the only ship in three million clicks.
2015 November 23, Mark Fergus, Hawk Ostby, “Dulcinea”, in The Expanse, season 1, episode 1, spoken by Alex Kamal (Cas Anvar)3 more examples
Several klicks closer, the ruins of the City of Poets rose jaggedly against the skyline.
1990, Dan Simmons, The Fall of Hyperion, 1st edition, New York: Doubleday, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 165an asteroid between one and three kilometers wide had slammed into the ground at fifteen klicks per second.
2002 May, Robert J. Sawyer, Hominids (The Neanderthal Parallax; 1), Tor, →ISBN, page 82Chief, can you hear me?...(static) My bird's down. Half a klick -(static)- downriver from your position.
2007 September 25, Bungie, Halo 3, spoken by Avery Johnson (David Scully), Microsoft Game Studios, Xbox 360, level/area: Sierra 117 - plural normallyslangKilometres per hour.
klick2
plural klicks
- alternativeAlternative spelling of click (mostly as an interjection)
KLICK3
- abbreviationacronymuncountableAcronym of keratosis linearis with ichthyosis congenita and sclerosing keratoderma.
Synonyms & antonyms
nouna metric unit of length equal to 1000 meters (or 0.621371 miles)
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
* Most likely a pseudo-condensed pronunciation of kilometer, being a suitably short word emphasizing k+l instead of /keɪ/ alone (the same principle as with military spelling alphabets, but also clearly distinguished from kilo (/kiːloʊ/) for kilogram). * Possibly onomatopoeic of the sound of a military odometer. When a soldier would complete a mark, they would signal to their commander and denote movement of 1,000 meters by hoisting up their rifle and moving the gas regulator with their thumb, which made a "click" the commander could hear.
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Estonian kilt, kilts
- kiltslang, a kilometre
- kiltsslang, a kilometre
French borne
- borneslang, a kilometre
Rhymes & wordplay
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Cite this entry
klick. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/klick
“klick.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/klick. Accessed November 2, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “klick,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/klick.
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