clock
verb/klɒk/
/klɑːk/
Verb Forms
Phrasal Verbs| present simple I / you / we / they clock | /klɒk/ /klɑːk/ |
| he / she / it clocks | /klɒks/ /klɑːks/ |
| past simple clocked | /klɒkt/ /klɑːkt/ |
| past participle clocked | /klɒkt/ /klɑːkt/ |
| -ing form clocking | /ˈklɒkɪŋ/ /ˈklɑːkɪŋ/ |
- clock something to reach a particular time or speed
- He clocked 10.09 seconds in the 100 metres final.
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- to measure the speed at which somebody/something is travelling
- clock somebody doing something The police clocked her doing over 100 miles an hour.
- clock somebody/something (at something) Wind gusts at 80 mph were clocked at Rapid City.
- clock somebody | clock that… | clock what/where, etc… (British English, informal) to notice or recognize somebody
- I clocked her in the driving mirror.
- clock somebody (informal) to hit somebody, especially on the head
- He said it again, so I clocked him on the nose!
- clock something (British English, informal) to illegally reduce the number of miles shown on a vehicle’s milometer (= instrument that measures the number of miles it has travelled) in order to make the vehicle appear to have travelled fewer miles than it really has
Word Originlate Middle English: from Middle Low German and Middle Dutch klocke, based on medieval Latin clocca ‘bell’.
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