Klicks

I do hear people use "klicks" for speed -- going 80 klicks an hour, winds gusting to 60 klicks, that kind of thing -- but haven't heard anyone actually say "klickage." ❋ Unknown (2005)

They were waiting about two klicks outside Ironworks. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The posted limit on the route home was 80 klicks, an' I didn't even have a license ta drive a hovercraft, let alone have insurance on myself fer usin' one. ❋ Hugh Barlow (2011)

With 65 klicks to go that day, much of it a detour around a seaside military range, we pressed on. ❋ Marlowe Hood (2011)

The urge to go UP must be overwhelming bearing in mind you're already at 5.6 km (18,370ft) ... only 3.2 klicks* to go! ❋ Unknown (2009)

If he could get to a truck, he could drive to a small airstrip a few klicks away. ❋ Kresley Cole (2011)

I got 'er up ta 80 klicks in the swamp, which don't sound like much ta folks who're used ta highway drivin', but in a swamp, that is FAST. ❋ Hugh Barlow (2011)

The lift motors 're electric, an' if I have difficulty with the pusher, the lift fans c'n limp me home at about 20 klicks a hour as long as I'm no more'n a hour from dry land. ❋ Hugh Barlow (2011)

Taiwan is gliding into the local fishing port for sashimi, and lapping up the last few klicks to the only noodle stand for a hundred leagues. ❋ Michael Turton (2011)

The nearest ones I saw were more than a hundred klicks north, David said. ❋ Scott Westerfeld (2010)

So I walked about 15 klicks this morning and signed copies of the book at Pulp Fiction, Dymocks and Borders. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Turning it over in his hands, Zane ran a finger down the grooves that marked the back side of the tray “On good, powdery snow you could go a thousand klicks an hour on these babies.” ❋ Scott Westerfeld (2010)

At two hundred klicks an hour, that would be deadly. ❋ Scott Westerfeld (2010)

Rens lifters couldnt fly more than a hundred klicks an houra third of the trains speed. ❋ Scott Westerfeld (2010)

“Sensors confirm the presence of his vessel, about a dozen klicks below us.” ❋ Michael A. Martin (2010)

A cloud of dread settled over Tuvok as he contemplated the shuttlecraft, which the away team had left expending only enough energy to maintain a constant relative position about fifty klicks below Brahma-Shiva relative to Hranrar. ❋ Michael A. Martin (2010)

On the main viewer, the second Doornail world continued its slow, oblivious rotation several hundred klicks below Titan. ❋ Michael A. Martin (2010)

On the viewer before him, the planet Hranrar turned slowly several hundred klicks below Titan, oblivious to his hopes and fears. ❋ Michael A. Martin (2010)

This was unusual, because there was nothing down there—according to the maps, the nearest land in this part of the Pacific was an atoll 500 klicks to the east. ❋ Matthew Reilly (2010)

Enemy combatants [spotted] [up north], I [estimate] around 25 klicks away. ❋ Jassim The Great (2009)

We're about 2 klicks [south] of your [position]. ❋ Emorog (2008)

Distance: [Hamilton] is about 50 klicks from [Toronto]. Speed: I was doing about a [120] klicks. ❋ Beowulf_cam (2005)

"It's about two klicks [up the road]." (Distance: 2 [km]) "We were [doing ninety] klicks." (Speed: 90 km/hr) ❋ Prandst (2019)

I [klicked] it at those [bastards] cause they play like [bitches] ❋ LiQuiD (2004)

You like to see [my arse] [Klick]. Oh thats the spot [Lognar]! ❋ Unclebobsticle (2006)

She [Kurly] [Klicked] me. She invited herself to my house, abused my hospitality, took photos without me knowing then [spread them] over the internet when I said she couldn't visit again ❋ Poser Unawares (2008)

guns on tha [floor drugs] in tha [dresser] drawer [klick house] we never speak. ❋ Thee Who Preaches The Unspoken (2018)

[look at that] k1ng klick over there doing [that man] a [favor] for 10mil. ❋ Mike Klick (2009)

All he does is drive [around town] in his Civic adding [dick klicks] while blasting his stereo. Were you out riding around town all night adding dick klicks to your bike? You have 30,000 miles on your vehicle? Ya but there mostly dick klicks because I dont like to [take it out] of town. ❋ HighSpeedHamish (2010)