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stops someone's clock

stops someone's clock is the third-person singular simple present indicative of stop someone's clock.

Meaning of stop someone's clock

Verb

stop someone's clock (third-person singular simple present stops someone's clock, present participle stopping someone's clock, simple past and past participle stopped someone's clock)

  1. (slang) To kill someone.
    • "You wouldn't last thirty minutes if I wasn't behind you," Dandy Bob snapped. "Somebody would stop your clock, only they're afraid of me."2004, Bennett Foster, Gila City, page 147
  2. (slang) To clean someone's clock; to make incapable of action; to thwart.
    • Mom wasn't in no mood for lallygagging and she give him a look that stopped his clock.1936, Vincent McHugh, Caleb Catlum's America, page 23
  3. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see stop, clock.
    • Yet when Garry Kasparov failed to stop his clock after making a move in a World Championship match, it was his opponent, Anatoly Karpov, who was criticized for failing to alert him.2015, Andy Soltis, Chess Lists, page 11

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Stops someone's clock is the third-person singular simple present indicative of stop someone's clock.

Words near stops someone's clock in the dictionary

  1. stops out
  2. stops over
  3. stops press
  4. stops short
  5. stops someone in their tracks
  6. stops someone's clock
  7. stops the bleeding
  8. stops the job
  9. stops the presses
  10. stops traffic
  11. stops two gaps with one bush

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