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clock (one)
slang To strike one very forcefully, especially in the face. He made some rude comment about my mother, so I turned around and clocked him square in the jaw.
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clock
tv. to earn, score, or total up someone or something. (As if the person or thing gained were being metered or clocked.) Sam clocked a date with Sally, and is he ever proud!
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions Copyright © 2006 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved.
- (a)round the clock
- (one) can't turn back the clock
- (the) clock is running
- (the) clock is ticking
- a broken clock is right twice a day
- a dead clock is correct twice a day
- a dead clock is right twice a day
- a race against time/the clock
- a stopped clock is right twice a day
- against the clock
- around/round the clock
- beat the clock
- biological clock is ticking
- burn some clock
- burn the clock
- clean (one's) clock
- clean clock
- clean someone's clock
- clock
- clock (one)
- clock (someone or something) at (a certain speed)
- clock (someone or something) at speeds of (some amount)
- clock at
- clock at speeds of
- clock in
- clock in at (some number)
- clock is ticking, the
- clock off
- clock out
- clock up
- clock watcher
- clock-watcher
- eat the clock
- face (that) would stop a clock
- face only a mother could love
- film at 11
- five o'clock shadow
- get (one's) clock cleaned
- get (one's) prescription filled
- get (one's) prescription refilled
- get clocked
- homely enough to stop a clock
- it's five o'clock somewhere
- kill the clock
- know what's o'clock
- more at 11
- move the/(one's) clock(s) back
- move the/(one's) clock(s) forward
- off the clock
- on the clock
- punch a/the clock
- punch in
- punch the clock
- push back the clock
- put back the clock
- put the/(one's) clock(s) back
- put the/(one's) clock(s) forward
- put/turn the clock back
- race against the clock
- race against time
- roll back the clock
- round the clock
- run down the clock
- run out the clock
- run the clock down
- run the clock out
- set back
- set back the clock
- set the/(one's) clock(s) ahead
- set the/(one's) clock(s) back
- set the/(one's) clock(s) forward
- sleep around the clock
- stop (one's) clock
- stop someone's clock
- stop the clock
- turn back the clock
- turn the clock back
- turn the clock back, to
- turn the/(one's) clock(s) back
- turn the/(one's) clock(s) forward
- watch the clock
- wind back the clock
- work (a)round the clock
- work against the clock