clicker

noun

click·​er ˈkli-kər 

1

: remote control sense 2

2

: any of various devices operated with a button that makes a click sound when pressed

He pointed his clicker at the screen and the first slide appeared.

—Larissa MacFarquhar

especially : a mechanical handheld counter with a button that makes a click sound when pressed and that tallies the number of clicks

To help me keep count, I have a clicker inside my jacket pocket, the same kind baseball managers use to track pitch counts.

—Colin Kearns

Examples of clicker in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

The smart clickers that almost killed Ellie and Dina (thank goodness Jesse showed up just in the nick of time!). —Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 19 May 2025

The clickers chase Ellie and Dina until the pair drops into a subway car full of skeletons (who have experienced a Top 10 fear of mine: enduring my last moments on public transportation somewhere)… and the infected FOLLOW THEM. —Kimberly Roots, TVLine, 4 May 2025

The process could sometimes take up to 10 days for certain iterations of infected, like the horrifying clickers. —Julia Teti, Footwear News, 3 Sep. 2019

Instead, stand up, put a clicker in your hand, and speak out loud. —Carmine Gallo, Forbes.com, 22 May 2025

Word History

First Known Use

1974, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Rhymes for clicker

• bicker
• dicker
• flicker
• kicker
• liquor
• picker
• quicker
• ricker
• sicker
• slicker
• snicker
• sticker

Kids Definition

clicker

noun

click·​er ˈklik-ər 

: remote control sense 2