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What does clanky mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word clanky? Here's what it means.

Adjective
  1. Making a clanking metallic sound.
  2. Providing audible indication of imminent mechanical failure. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
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The popular will has been thwarted at least three times by the clanky, undemocratic machinery of the Electoral College.
The Government is looking at the IR35 with a view to overhaul a system that has been proven to be clanky and burdensome.
The mixing might be a little bit clanky but the spirit and the heartbeat of what I'll be playing will be what people recognise and love.
The bass guitar is brought to the front on this one with the clanky riff propelling the forward.
But I've got a really cool Land Rover Camel Trophy edition with a noisy and clanky TDI diesel engine.
It began in Bristol in 1832 when four businessmen saw the future and knew that it would work in a clanky, smut-spitting, smoky sort of way.

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