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clock
verb- to catch sight of or notice someone or something; to watch someone or something US, 1929
- The boys down at Chelsea nick every time they clock my boat[.] — Derek Raymond (Robin Cook), The Crust on its Uppers, 1962
- Big, gap-toothed smile of surprise, like we wasn’t clocked before we came in the door, comes up from the pool table. — Edwin Torres, After Hours, p. 170, 1979
- When you walked in, Eddie, did you clock the two chinks? — Vincent Patrick, The Pope of Greenwich Village, p. 36, 1979
- [S]ome geezer I ain’t never clocked before who keeps asking me stupid questions. — Greg Williams, Diamond Geezers, p. 35, 1997
- We sat back sipping our teas clocking Slip gobbing his apples. — Jeremy Cameron, Brown Bread in Wengen, p. 114, 1999
- to watch someone patiently; especially to follow someone with the purpose of discovering the details of a bet UK
- — Frank Norman, Bang to Rights, 1958
- To “clock” someone is to follow someone and see what he backs. This is sometimes expressed as “Get on his daily [tail]”. — Sunday Telegraph, 7 May 1967
- to keep track of a slot machine in an effort to make an educated guess as to when it will pay off US
- There’s a machine I’m clocking. Jackpot’s getting up where it’s getting interesting. — J. Edward Allen, The Basics of Winning Slots, p. 56, 1984
- to keep track of the money involved in a game or an enterprise US
- — Robert C. Prus and C.R.D. Sharper, Road Hustler, p. 169, 1977
- to register on the speedometer; to attain a particular speed UK, 1892
From CLOCK (a speedometer). - to figure something out, to evaluate something US, 1961
- I mean, he was already in Vegas a couple of years and he had the fuckin’ place clocked. — Casino, 1995
- to earn something US
- — Ellen C. Bellone (Editor), Dictionary of Slang, p. 7, 1989
- to punch, to strike with the fist UK, 1932
Perhaps, originally, “to hit in the CLOCK- Peter was so mad he clocked Perce good and hearty. — Charles Raven, Underworld Nights, p. 45, 1956
- “Finally the fool clocked a sergeant in the locker room at the end of a shift. Knocked him cold.” — Vincent Patrick, The Pope of Greenwich Village, p. 112, 1979
- — Connie Eble (Editor), UNC-CH Campus Slang, p. 2, April 1997
- “How about the guy you clocked?” “He tried to stiff [cheat] me.[”] — Janet Evanovich, Seven Up, p. 94, 2001
- One day I’d clock Kev. I could see it coming. — Jonathan Gash, The Ten Word Game, p. 187, 2003
- Butler then clocked the victor with his best punch of the night[.] — FHM, p. 158, June 2003
- to sell drugs on the street US
- This kid Strike is now out there on the streets clocking for Rodney, like his lieutenant or something, OK? — Richard Price, Clockers, p. 447, 1992
- — Mark S. Fleisher, Beggars & Thieves, p. 287, 1995
- to wind back the mileometer (odometer) of a vehicle to increase its sale value US
- — American Speech, p. 309–310, Winter 1980: “More jargon of car salesmen.”
- About 90% of the used cars coming into New Zealand had done more miles than their odometers indicated. They had been “clocked.” — Sunday Star-Times, p. C13, 23 July 1995
- to recognize someone as transgendered US
- And many of the women were all too happy to focus on their appearance as they lived in terror of being “clocked”–street slang for being identified as trans–or being called a “brick”–a derogatory term for a trans woman who appears masculine. — The Advocate, p. 34, 27 March 2007
▶ clock in
to visit your boyfriend or girlfriend only out of a sense of duty US- I’d love to drink and throw stuff off the roof with you guys, but I have to clock in with the boss or she’ll cut me off. — Ben Applebaum and Derrick Pittman, Turd Ferguson & The Sausage Party, p. 13, 2004
▶ clock in the green room
while surfing, to take a long ride inside the hollow of a breaking wave US- — Trevor Cralle, The Surfin’ary, p. 21, 1991
▶ clock the action
to understand what is happening and what is being said US- — Dobie Gillis Teenage Slanguage Dictionary, 1962
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