Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to clock
Participle: clocked
Gerund: clocking
Indicative
Present
| I | clock |
| you | clock |
| he;she;it | clocks |
| we | clock |
| you | clock |
| they | clock |
Perfect
| I | have clocked |
| you | have clocked |
| he;she;it | has clocked |
| we | have clocked |
| you | have clocked |
| they | have clocked |
Past
| I | clocked |
| you | clocked |
| he;she;it | clocked |
| we | clocked |
| you | clocked |
| they | clocked |
Pluperfect
| I | had clocked |
| you | had clocked |
| he;she;it | had clocked |
| we | had clocked |
| you | had clocked |
| they | had clocked |
Future
| I | will clock |
| you | will clock |
| he;she;it | will clock |
| we | will clock |
| you | will clock |
| they | will clock |
Future Perfect
| I | will have clocked |
| you | will have clocked |
| he;she;it | will have clocked |
| we | will have clocked |
| you | will have clocked |
| they | will have clocked |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | clock |
| you | clock |
| he;she;it | clock |
| we | clock |
| you | clock |
| they | clock |
Perfect
| I | have clocked |
| you | have clocked |
| he;she;it | have clocked |
| we | have clocked |
| you | have clocked |
| they | have clocked |
Imperfect
| I | clocked |
| you | clocked |
| he;she;it | clocked |
| we | clocked |
| you | clocked |
| they | clocked |
Pluperfect
| I | had clocked |
| you | had clocked |
| he;she;it | had clocked |
| we | had clocked |
| you | had clocked |
| they | had clocked |
Conditional
Present
| I | would clock |
| you | would clock |
| he;she;it | would clock |
| we | would clock |
| you | would clock |
| they | would clock |
Perfect
| I | would have clocked |
| you | would have clocked |
| he;she;it | would have clocked |
| we | would have clocked |
| you | would have clocked |
| they | would have clocked |
Imperative
| you | clock |
| we | Let's clock |
| you | clock |
Verbs conjugated like 'clock'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'clock'
block,
chock,
clack,
cleck,
click,
cloak,
clonk,
cluck,
cock,
crock,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Synonyms
- to establish the identity of someone or something
- ID, identify, ken, notice, recognize, twig
- to pay attention to with one’s eyes
- behold, geek, kool, look, regard, squizz, take a butcher's, take a dekko, take a gander, vada, view
- to catch sight of something; to take notice (visually)
- catch sight of, decern, descry, espy, goam, ken, make out, spot, spy
Additional Information
Etymology
First use appears c. 1370. From Middle English clokke, clok, cloke (“clock”), from Middle Dutch clocke (“bell, clock”), from Old Dutch *klokka, from Medieval Latin clocca (“bell, clock, cloak”), probably of Celtic origin, from Proto-Celtic *klokkos (“bell”) (compare Welsh cloch (“bell”), Old Irish cloc (“bell, clock”)), either onomatopoeic or from Proto-Indo-European *klek- (“to laugh, cackle”) (compare Proto-Germanic *hlahjaną (“to laugh”)). Cognate with Old English clucge (“bell”), Saterland Frisian Klokke (“bell, clock”), Dutch klok (“clock, bell”), Low German Klock (“bell, clock”), German Glocke (“bell”), Danish and Norwegian klokke (“clock, bell”), Faroese klokka (“clock, bell”), Icelandic klukka (“clock, bell”), Swedish klocka (“clock, bell”), Asturian llueca (“cowbell”), Galician and Portuguese choca (“cowbell”), Doublet of cloak and cloche. See: Proto-Germanic '
*hlahjaną', Frisian, Saterlandic 'Klokke', Faroese '
klokka', Icelandic '
klukka', Swedish '
klocka'.
Sample Sentences
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He was clocked at 155 miles per hour.
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Dan Patch clocked a scorching 1:55.5 flat. [1996, Jon Byrell, Lairs, Urgers and Coat-Tuggers, Sydney: Ironbark, page 186:]
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When the boxer let down his guard, his opponent clocked him.
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Clock the wheels on that car!
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It is true. Carmen is an official gold digger. In fact, she is an instructor at the school of gold digging. Hood rats have been clocking her style for years. Wanting to pull the players she pulled, and wishing they had the looks she had. [2005, Jr. Aaron Bryant, Cupid Is Stupid, page 19:]
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Cut to the pub on a lads night out, / Man at the bar cos it was his shout, / Clocks this bird and she looks OK, / Caught him looking and she walks his way, [2006, Lily Allen, “Knock 'Em Out”:]
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First it was only when I was with him—we would pass a pretty girl, I would notice her first, and my eyes would dart to his to see him clock her. [2021, Megan Nolan, Acts of Desperation, Random House, →ISBN:]
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He made it to ten yards away. Still they hadn't clocked him. Five yards. He felt increasingly confident about grabbing the actual thief, even if it meant letting the other lad get away. Both were pretty scrawny kids, although the other one was quite a bit older, maybe twenty,[…] [2021 July 1, Nick Oldham, Scarred, Severn House Publishers Ltd, →ISBN:]
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I had just long enough at Lancaster to clock another plaque to a great Victorian railway engineer, Joseph Locke (1805-60). [2021 December 29, Stephen Roberts, “Stories and facts behind railway plaques: Lancaster (1860)”, in RAIL, number 947, page 58:]
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I'd already clocked her as someone who couldn't reliably be believed when she spoke. And now this too!
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Bo John and I twisted our heads around as Miranda braked over to the gravelly shoulder, let the Scout wheeze to a stop. She was climbing out, hurrying back to whatever had caught her eye. Bo John leered into the door mirror, clocking her flouncing, leggy strut. [2000, Phil Austin, Naugahide Days: The Lost Island Stories of Thomas Wood Briar, page 109:]
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Once my transition was complete I considered moving to London, where I felt there was less chance of being clocked and a larger support network.
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Jaz said that the palpitations of fear he used to experience at the prospect of being publicly outed in the gurdwara dissipated after he clocked other gay Sikhs in there, even one who professed a Jat caste identity, he said – Jatness being associated with stereotypical dominant macho masculinity. He reflected that this was a major factor in his rapprochement with his[…] [2018 September 14, Nicola Frost, Tom Selwyn, Travelling towards Home: Mobilities and Homemaking, Berghahn Books, →ISBN, page 23:]
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Consuella Lopez, the director of operations and housing at Casa Ruby, remembers. "The more passable your body was, the less bullying you'd get, the more chances of you getting a regular job at a regular place without somebody clocking you." [2019 September 1, Dani Nett, “For Trans Women, Silicone 'Pumping' Can Be A Blessing And A Curse”, in NPR:]
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Jess was a sixty-something, short, White, bald man who could easily be "clocked" as gay. [2022 February 1, Townsand Price-Spratlen, Addiction Recovery and Resilience: Faith-based Health Services in an African American Community, State University of New York Press, →ISBN:]
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Quarantine had thrown a new wrench "do not perceive me" discourse, but trans people have arguably always had a messy relationship to being perceived. We avoid it, and yet we also juice our lives to be seen. Getting clocked feels bad, but being hot feels good. [2022 March 1, Charlie Markbreiter, “"Other Trans People Make Me Dysphoric": Trans Assimilation and Cringe”, in The New Inquiry:]
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I don't believe that car has done only 40,000 miles. It's been clocked.
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Have you clocked that game yet?
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Did you hear what she said about my outfit? She kind of clocked me.
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You clocked, that guy is always running his mouth.
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Its always a good day when I can clock someone using the (made up word) "unlessen". I just...ch... [2013 April 30, @NICKIMINAJ, Twitter (post), archived from the original on 03 Dec 2025:]
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not ariana getting her ass clocked on the set of victorious [2020 November 11, @BhadDhad, Twitter (post), archived from the original on 03 Dec 2025:]
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she just clocked all these mediocre men [2025 September 23, @buffys, X (post), archived from the original on 03 Dec 2025:]