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CLITTER
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Dictionary entry overview: What does clitter mean?
• CLITTER (verb)
The verb CLITTER has 1 sense:
1. make a shrill creaking noise by rubbing together special bodily structures
Familiarity information: CLITTER used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Make a shrill creaking noise by rubbing together special bodily structures
Classified under:
Verbs of seeing, hearing, feeling
Synonyms:
clitter; stridulate
Context example:
male insects such as crickets or grasshoppers stridulate
Hypernyms (to "clitter" is one way to...):
make noise; noise; resound (emit a noise)
Sentence frames:
Something ----s
Something ----s something
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