klick

[Dave Wilton]

Quoting "Mullins, Bill" <Bill.Mullins at US.ARMY.MIL>:

> klick [kilometer] OED has 1967.
>
> "New Slang Evolves in Viet Nam War", Hal Boyle (AP), Dallas Morning News,
> June 12 1965 sec A p. 12
> "But no one calls a kilometer a kilometer.  It's a "click". "
>
>

Robin Moore's "The Green Berets" uses "click" a lot. I believe that was a 1965
book--maybe 1964.

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