Clackers (disambiguation)
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Clackers may refer to:
- ClackersClackersClackers are toys which were popular in the late 1960s and early 1970s. They consisted of two 2 cm, hard balls suspended on string which were swung up and down so they banged against each other, making a clacking sound...
, a 1970s toy - A term for editorial staff at the fictional fashion magazine in the novel The Devil Wears Prada
- A term for computer operators in the novel The Difference EngineThe Difference EngineThe Difference Engine is an alternate history novel by William Gibson and Bruce Sterling.It posits a Victorian Britain in which great technological and social change has occurred after entrepreneurial inventor Charles Babbage succeeded in his ambition to build a mechanical computer .The novel was...
. - Clackers cerealClackers cerealClackers was the name of a breakfast cereal that the General Mills Corporation manufactured and marketed in the 1960s and 1970s.Noted for being promoted through television advertisements in which a box of the cereal would suddenly appear and interrupt some other activity, Clackers was a breakfast...
, a type of cereal made by General Mills - A Clapboard (film), used in film production that "clacks" when identifying scene and take information.
See also
- Clack (disambiguation), for persons named Clack
- Clacks, a fictional communications system
- Onomatopoeia