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death clock

death clock noun: a computer program or website displaying a countdown to a person's predicted date and time of death.

Noun

death clock (plural death clocks)

  1. A computer program or website displaying a countdown to a person's predicted date and time of death.
    • Keene had a death clock running, counting the days before his final breath, and his work plan was set to meet that last deadline, with a typical project management rigor.2012, Michel Bruneau, The Emancipating Death of a Boring Engineer

Forms of death clock

pluraldeath clocks

Questions about death clock

What does death clock mean?
Death clock means a computer program or website displaying a countdown to a person's predicted date and time of death.
What part of speech is death clock?
Death clock is a noun.
What is the plural of death clock?
The plural of death clock is death clocks.

Words near death clock in the dictionary

  1. death certificates
  2. death chamber
  3. death chambers
  4. death clerk
  5. death clerks
  6. death clock
  7. death clocks
  8. death cult
  9. death cultist
  10. death cultists
  11. death cults

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