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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 structuresplay

  Familiarity information: CLITTER used as a verb is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


CLITTER (verb)


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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