clanger

Meanings

1. Something that clangs; an alarm bell (also figuratively).
2. The clapper of a bell, anything that strikes a bell or other metal object to make a ringing sound.
3. A very noticeable mistake; an attention-getting faux pas.
4. A mistake made by a player; counted in the game statistics in the category "errors including frees against".
5. An early hi-hat consisting of cymbals mounted on the rim of a bass drum and struck with an arm on the drum's pedal.
6. A cicada, Psaltoda claripennis, of New South Wales and Queensland, having an upper body of green and brown and clear wings with green veins.

1. Short for Bedfordshire clanger.

Etymology

From clang (“loud ringing sound”) + -er.