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get one's clock cleaned

get one's clock cleaned verb: to be thoroughly defeated.

Verb

get one's clock cleaned (third-person singular simple present gets one's clock cleaned, present participle getting one's clock cleaned, simple past got one's clock cleaned, past participle got one's clock cleaned or gotten one's clock cleaned)

  1. (idiomatic) To be thoroughly defeated.
    1. (idiomatic) To be thoroughly beaten up.

Forms of get one's clock cleaned

third-person singular presentgets one's clock cleaned
present participlegetting one's clock cleaned
pastgot one's clock cleaned
past participlegot one's clock cleaned
past participlegotten one's clock cleaned

Questions about get one's clock cleaned

What does get one's clock cleaned mean?
Get one's clock cleaned means to be thoroughly defeated.
What part of speech is get one's clock cleaned?
Get one's clock cleaned is a verb.
What is the past tense of get one's clock cleaned?
The past tense of get one's clock cleaned is got one's clock cleaned.

Words near get one's clock cleaned in the dictionary

  1. get one's breath back
  2. get one's butt somewhere
  3. get one's claws into
  4. get one's claws on
  5. get one's claws out
  6. get one's clock cleaned
  7. get one's crap together
  8. get one's dick wet
  9. get one's ducks in a row
  10. get one's end away
  11. get one's end in

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