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Clanger

noun
1.
A conspicuous mistake whose effects seem to reverberate.






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"Clanger" Quotes from Famous Books



... they meet. On all sides it is acknowledged that the larrikin element is daily increasing, and has already reached, especially in Melbourne, proportions which make it threaten to amount to a social clanger within a few years. Of late their outbreaks have not been confined to night-work, but take place in open daylight, coram populo et police. No one exactly knows how to meet the difficulty, and What shall we do with our larrikins?' is likely to replace the former popular cry of 'What ...
— Town Life in Australia - 1883 • R. E. N. (Richard) Twopeny



Words linked to "Clanger" :   Great Britain, boner, bungle, blunder, Britain, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, foul-up, blooper, pratfall, botch, flub, UK, boo-boo, United Kingdom, bloomer, U.K., clang, fuckup



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