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- adjective Without a
watch (timepiece).
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Examples
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March 22nd, 2010 - 9:48:02 PM because i'm watchless, mine broke months ago
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Charlize Theron, watchless at a recent film premiere.
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I've been watchless for several weeks now lost one watch, two ran out of batteries concurrently but I haven't got to the repairers yet, and the discarded Swatch that I pinched from my son I...left in a pocket and put through the washer/dryer - totally terminal treatment, I'm afraid.
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My parents playing house, living in lamplight and soup steam, scooped inside their wintry nest; my father, occasionally bare-wristed, watchless, attempting minor household repairs and the bathing of his new son; my mother breastfeeding me by uncurtained windows, watching trapezoids of sunlight move across the lawn.
The Beautiful Miscellaneous Dominic Smith 2007
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My parents playing house, living in lamplight and soup steam, scooped inside their wintry nest; my father, occasionally bare-wristed, watchless, attempting minor household repairs and the bathing of his new son; my mother breastfeeding me by uncurtained windows, watching trapezoids of sunlight move across the lawn.
The Beautiful Miscellaneous Dominic Smith 2007
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GORDON BROWN, BRITISH PRIME MINISTER: If there is information in one country about the potential recruitment or the actual recruitment of some terrorist group that match the information that's flowing to another country, and I want the system which is the watchless system where we are trying to expand to Europe, and a system whereby we know who are our potential terror suspects, we expand that to other countries in the world.
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I for one LOVED last nights episode, and was waiting for this “tv watchless” show to be discussed here.
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Now he just wanted to know where his soldiers were and his watchless chain.
Beloved Morrison, Toni 1987
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Wandering mapless and watchless, we lose ourselves in the woods.
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ME: "Four I was struck by lightning thirty, you watchless piece of shit".
unclebob Diary Entry unclebob 2000
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