A word old-timers use to refer to the localtown jail.
The other day, Pappy told me the story about being arrested after shooting off flares on the Fourth of July. "Them cops came and carried me right off to the clinker," he said.
A maneuver where a male pulls his pants down while in a standing position (generally to the ankles), lifts his shirt with onehand, and expeditiously thrusts his hips back and forth in a swinging motion. If done correctly, the thrusting will swing his "member" into contact with the abdomen on the upswing, and the leg or anus on the downswing, thereby creating a "clacking" sound. It is recommended that this act be augmented by pouring a beer over the crotch with the free hand to accentuate the clacks being generated.
Ross was getting annoyed by Carissa so he decided to pull out The Clacker to make her leave.
Fogey/fogy /fougi/ sl. (early 18C+, orig. Scot) old-fashioned, stuck-in-the mud.
Person with old fashioned ideas which he is unwilling to change: Come to the disco and stop being such an old fogey!
You think me an old fogeyand an old tory, his thoughtful voice said. I saw three generations since O’Connel’s time. I remember the famine. Do you know that the orange lodges agitated for repeal of the union twenty years before O’Connel did or before the prelates of your communion denounced him as a demagogue? You fenians forget some things. (James Joyce, Ulysses. Penguin Books,1992. p. 38)