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Stop someone's clock

verb, slang

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Verb
  1. 1
    To kill someone. slang

    ""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.""

  2. 2
    To clean someone's clock; to make incapable of action; to thwart. slang

    "Mom wasn't in no mood for lallygagging and she give him a look that stopped his clock."

  3. 3
    Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see stop, clock.

    "Yet when Garry Kasparov failed to stop his clock after making a move in a World Championship match, it was his opponent, Anatoly Karpov, who was criticized for failing to alert him."

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