klick
nounInformal
A Canadian English slang term. Browse all Canadian slang.
What it means
A kilometre. Also used for kilometres per hour: doing a hundred klicks.
In use
It's about forty klicks up the highway.
He was doing a hundred and twenty klicks in a hundred zone.
Where it comes from
Military in origin and common across several armed forces, but general civilian vocabulary in Canada in a way it is not elsewhere.
Other forms
- Spellings and variants:
- click