A time measurement made according to a clock.
another day clocking in at the yixuan factory. the disciples keep asking me if they can fuck belle. junior, they won't even let me fuck belle.
Once again, Kimmel's "rose from the grave" quip was simply the latest in a long history of Giuliani/vampire jokes. I am not sure how you cover this faux controversy without clocking that. latenighter.com/news/jimmy-k...
Noticing or calling out something — particularly noticing the truth behind a deception or recognizing someone's identity. In drag, "getting clocked" means being recognized as a drag queen rather than passing as cis.
"clocking" means noticing or calling out something — particularly noticing the truth behind a deception or recognizing someone's identity. It is one of many casual words teens pick up from friends, social media, music or sport, and on its own it carries no particular warning. If you hear your teen use it, it is fair to ask what they mean by it in their friend group, since meanings drift quickly. Asking out of curiosity rather than alarm tends to keep the conversation open and useful.
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( slang, ,, informal) A congratulation of success.
(literally, UK) To record one's time of arrival at work, traditionally by inserting one's card into a timestamping machine.
(UK, colloquial) Of a motor vehicle: having had its odometer turned back so as to display a lower mileage.
(informal, intransitive) To grow older; to proceed.
clocking in youtu.be/pz86zK7qnEg?...
"clocking" is informal English meaning noticing or calling out something — particularly noticing the truth behind a deception or recognizing someone's identity. It is used widely across English varieties. A more formal or neutral equivalent would be something like "noticing or calling out something — particularly noticing the truth behind a deception or recognizing someone's identity" expressed in standard vocabulary. A common mistake is to assume "clocking" can replace its standard equivalent in every register; keep it for spoken or casual situations and use the formal form in writing.
“another day clocking in at the yixuan factory. the disciples keep asking me if they can fuck belle. junior, they won't even let me fuck belle.”
“Once again, Kimmel's "rose from the grave" quip was simply the latest in a long history of Giuliani/vampire jokes. I am not sure how you cover this faux controversy without clocking that. latenighter.com/news/jimmy-k...”
“clocking in youtu.be/pz86zK7qnEg?...”
“See, I told ya we'd be back!. Now available to rent on Amazon Prime again! www.amazon.com/Clocking-T-M... #clockingthet”
“They were clocking his lies during his first term: we’ve lost count. He’s had 10 years to brainwash even our children -we’ve let a gang of mafia criminals kidnap our children.”
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A time measurement made according to a clock.
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“Some of the smartclocks use front-facing cameras to capture employee clock-ins to deter "buddy clocking" or "buddy punching", whereby one employee fraudulently records the time of another.”
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