Clock

  • 61clock up — phr verb Clock up is used with these nouns as the object: ↑mile, ↑time …

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  • 62clock — Synonyms and related words: Big Ben, beat time, brood, chronometer, clock movement, clockworks, cover, fix the time, horologe, horologium, keep time, mark time, measure time, set, set the time, sit, ticker, time, timekeeper, timepiece, timer,… …

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  • 63Clock — 1. record the speed of a racehorse, racing car, runner, etc.; 2. (on pinball machines, computer games, etc.) make the digital read out of the scoreboard return to the initial position of zeros in a single game of continuous play; 3. drive a car… …

    Dictionary of Australian slang

  • 64clock — I Australian Slang 1. record the speed of a racehorse, racing car, runner, etc.; 2. (on pinball machines, computer games, etc.) make the digital read out of the scoreboard return to the initial position of zeros in a single game of continuous… …

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  • 65clock it — vb to defeat one s opponent, win a contest. The term may have derived from the jar gon employed in the Nintendo Game Boy computer games, or from the collo quial Americanism to clean someone s clock , meaning to defeat or confound …

    Contemporary slang

  • 66clock up — PHRASAL VERB If you clock up a large number or total of things, you reach that number or total. [V P n (not pron)] In two years, he clocked up over 100 victories... [V P n (not pron)] Rude taxi drivers clocked up a total of 239 offences in 1990.… …

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  • 67clock — klÉ’k n. timepiece, device for telling time v. measure time, time; register on a time clock …

    English contemporary dictionary

  • 68clock in — register on a time clock at the start of a work shift, punch in …

    English contemporary dictionary

  • 69clock — 1. noun a grandfather clock Syn: timepiece, timekeeper, timer; chronometer, chronograph 2. verb, informal his fastball was clocked at 92 mph Syn: time, measure …

    Thesaurus of popular words

  • 70clock —    An electronic circuit that generates regularly spaced timing pulses at speeds up    • Stand alone (non networked) client applications, such as local word processors Applications that run on the client but request data from the server, such as… …

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