klicks per

Definition

Speed measured in kilometers per hour in military operations, because metric system adoption happened everywhere except America's civilian life. One klick per is walking pace; fifty klicks per is hauling ass in a Humvee.

Example Usage

Convoy maintaining thirty klicks per on this route—any faster and we risk IEDs, any slower and we're sitting ducks.

Origin

Military adaptation of metric system velocity measurement

Fun Fact

U.S. military uses metric for everything official, leading to the weird situation where soldiers measure distance in klicks but their hometown uses miles.

Source: NATO standardized military measurement terminology

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