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clock-watch

clock-watch verb: to continually check the time to determine how much longer one has to work or study.

Verb

clock-watch (third-person singular simple present clock-watches, present participle clock-watching, simple past and past participle clock-watched)

  1. (intransitive) To continually check the time to determine how much longer one has to work or study.
    • I clock-watched constantly, my iPod on shuffle.2010, Mike Perham, Sailing the Dream

Forms of clock-watch

third-person singular presentclock-watches
present participleclock-watching
past participleclock-watched
pastclock-watched

Questions about clock-watch

What does clock-watch mean?
Clock-watch means to continually check the time to determine how much longer one has to work or study.
What part of speech is clock-watch?
Clock-watch is a verb.
What is the past tense of clock-watch?
The past tense of clock-watch is clock-watched.

Words near clock-watch in the dictionary

  1. clock wipes
  2. clock-face timetable
  3. clock-face timetables
  4. clock-jobber
  5. clock-jobbers
  6. clock-watch
  7. clock-watched
  8. clock-watcher
  9. clock-watchers
  10. clock-watches
  11. clock-watching

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