unclockable

Adjective

unclockable (comparative more unclockable, superlative most unclockable)

1. Having an odometer that cannot be altered to provide a fake reading.
   • Oddy also claims that any car you intend to buy almost certainly has a genuine mileage as complicated electronics make them famously unclockable.2001, Autocar - Volume 230, Issues 1-5, page 47
2. At a speed that cannot be measured.
   • Sam McDowell had come over from the San Francisco Giants on the same day, and the left-hander with the host of personal problems and unclockable fastball was still on the roster, always a threat to live up to his immense talent.1985, Dick Lally, Pinstriped Summers: Memories of Yankee Seasons Past, page 119
   • Sharon can take off at unclockable speeds and be racing down the highway before the guys have shifted into fourth.2001, Barbara Joans, Bike lust: Harleys, women, and American society, page 135
3. At a time that cannot be measured or identified.
   • With these protracted and unclockable events, a moment or date may be given when the goal has certainly not yet been reached, and another when it certainly has ; but it is impossible to come any closer to an exact moment within that period.1956, Mind, page 468
   • Brother Anancy, like most just-arrive grabalicious samfie-man, drinking more than one spider fair share of whites, and people seeing him as he spangle staggering round the village at all sort of unclockable hours.1973, Andrew Salkey, Anancy's Score, page 55
4. Being undetectably homosexual.
   • I'm worried that the measure is no longer what you're building with your hands - a safer block or a better world but in what dap, fist pumping, jaw connecting punch, how unclockable you are. How undetectable your homosexuality is.2006, Frank León Roberts, Marvin K. White, If We Have to Take Tomorrow, page 12
   • With the notable exception of Ray's best friend Kyle, all the black queer men in Harris' novels are “unclockable,” that is, they present an image of heterosexuality.2010, R. Sneed, Representations of Homosexuality, →ISBN
5. (transgender slang) Not recognizable as transgender or a drag performer; passing.
   • She told me the older girls she knew (“These fierce, unclockable bitches!”) went to a doctor in Waikiki who prescribed hormones for girls as young as sixteen.2014, Janet Mock, Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love & So Much More, →ISBN
   • I had never met anyone like her, and I was blown away by how unclockable — or passable for a woman — she was.2018 March 9, Monica Beverly Hillz, “I'm a trans woman and a drag queen. Despite what RuPaul says, you can be both”, in The Washington Post
6. (broadly) Unreadable; undetectable.
   • ...plants a stake that casts no shadow, and who himself stands there unclockable, beyond the nothing-new reach of the sun.2010, The Malahat Review - Issues 170-173, page 54
   • It causes stomach pain, weight loss, diarrhea, fatigue, and more, but is largely unclockable to an outsider's gaze.2018 June 21, Ione Gamble, “Online, I'm the Picture of Health. Offline, I Have a Chronic Illness”, in Vice