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  • noun Plural form of clocker.

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Examples

  • They call the bad guys "clockers" and used to be they had to physically roll back the numbers, not that difficult, but it left obvious signs of tampering.

    unknown title 2009

  • A time so fast that the clockers, like teenage gossips, lit up the phone lines, saying they hadn't seen a horse work like that in years, and Brette said afterward to Matz, This is the Kentucky Derby winner.

    Gone Like the Wind Bissinger, Buzz 2007

  • He went off at odds of less than even money, and after the Laurel Futurity the hangdog clockers, who stand by the rail of every track in the early dawn with cups of coffee and stopwatches in their hands, measuring workout times of racehorses, had begun telling tall and true tales of him.

    Gone Like the Wind Bissinger, Buzz 2007

  • Headache cure = hearty Laughter and endorphins, not always necessarily "indoor" phins, but available in fine weather outdoors or at the indoor solid-good run if you make some break time, although you're looking all too soon at booking hours with the newest little hand and the maternal big hand (look out for the dangerous and stinging split-second back-hand on many protective new mother clockers.)

    my sexiest migraine 2005

  • About champion sheep shearers, world class worm eaters, Grade A coin spinners, speedy bottle openers, lightning-fast sausage swallowers, go for broke turkey clockers, Pogo Stick jumpers, airplane pullers, dominos stackers, Barbie doll and barf bag collectors.

    CNN Transcript Apr 20, 2004 2004

  • For the really serious over-clockers out there: the Australian National University is selling off its old supercomputer - with peak performance of 28.6 GFlops.

    Anyone need a new PC? really 2003

  • I don't want the clockers to get wise to him, neither!

    Blister Jones John Taintor Foote 1915

  • Some clockers on Sunday didn't like Uncle Mo's final work, which led Repole to say, "I get more confident" after reading all the comments.

    NY Daily News JERRY BOSSERT 2011

  • This is intended to thwart "clockers", who tamper with a car's odometer to hide its true mileage.

    Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph, Sunday Telegraph David Millward 2012

  • Jockey: Robby Albarado He has done all of his racing on synthetics and turf, but clockers have raved about his training on dirt at Churchill.

    The Washington Post: National, World & D.C. Area News and Headlines - washingtonpost.com 2011

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