clanger
IPA: kɫˈæŋɝ
noun
- Something that clangs; an alarm bell (also figuratively).
- The clapper of a bell, anything that strikes a bell or other metal object to make a ringing sound.
- (chiefly UK, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, informal, often in the phrase drop a clanger) A very noticeable mistake; an attention-getting faux pas.
- (Australia, Australian rules football) A mistake made by a player; counted in the game statistics in the category "errors including frees against".
- An early hi-hat consisting of cymbals mounted on the rim of a bass drum and struck with an arm on the drum's pedal.
- (Australia, entomology) A cicada, Psaltoda claripennis, of New South Wales and Queensland, having an upper body of green and brown and clear wings with green veins.
- Short for Bedfordshire clanger. [A dish originating from the English county of Bedfordshire, an elongated suet pudding with meat in one side and jam in the other.]
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Examples of "clanger" in Sentences
- The clanger was a mistake.
- Clanger is a colloquial term for 'mistake'.
- Talking about the girl was a bit of a clanger.
- He is remembered for a monumental clanger in 2004.
- But when pressed Speer dropped 'eine kleine' clanger.
- I wrote to point out the clanger but never got a reply.
- Episode one shows a Clanger inflating a balloon using a foot pump.
- The Bedfordshire Clanger is a dish from the county of Bedfordshire, in England.
- Sachs made his screen debut in 1959 in the film The Night We Dropped a Clanger.