Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

stop someone's clock

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.06 in modern English

Syllables: stop -some-one's -clock
IPA

29

Scrabble Score

17

Letters

4

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

To kill someone.

Slang

verb

To clean someone's clock; to make incapable of action; to thwart.

Slang

verb

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see stop, clock.

Example Sentences

""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.""
"Navarro aimed his cocked Colt at Homer Winters's fear-etched face. “Come and pick him up before I stop his clock.”"
"I cannot let it stop my clock, I'm far from the end of my road."
"Mom wasn't in no mood for lallygagging and she give him a look that stopped his clock."
"Somebody who played a grim little war-game with him; not wanting to kill him, only to kill time, to stop his clock for a couple of hours."
"“He wasn't going to change his tune,” Tucker said. “So I stopped his clock. Now he knows not to bugger us about.”"

Usage

Slang

Inflected Forms

stops someone's clock (present, singular) stopping someone's clock (participle, present) stopped someone's clock (participle, past) stopped someone's clock (past)

Synonyms

annihilate bag baptize bereave of life blight bring down bump off bury cack compromised to a permanent end croak crush

Questions

What does stop someone's clock mean?: To kill someone.

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