What does "unclockable" mean?

Having an odometer that cannot be altered to provide a fake reading.

Unclockable

adj

adj ·Uncommon ·Advanced level

Adjective

1
Having an odometer that cannot be altered to provide a fake reading.
"Oddy also claims that any car you intend to buy almost certainly has a genuine mileage as complicated electronics make them famously unclockable."
2
At a speed that cannot be measured.
"Sam McDowell had come over from the San Francisco Giants on the same day, and the left-hander with the host of personal problems and unclockable fastball was still on the roster, always a threat to live up to his immense talent."
3
At a time that cannot be measured or identified.
"With these protracted and unclockable events, a moment or date may be given when the goal has certainly not yet been reached, and another when it certainly has ; but it is impossible to come any closer to an exact moment within that period."
4
Being undetectably homosexual.
"I'm worried that the measure is no longer what you're building with your hands - a safer block or a better world but in what dap, fist pumping, jaw connecting punch, how unclockable you are. How undetectable your homosexuality is."
5
Not recognizable as transgender or a drag performer; passing.
"She told me the older girls she knew (“These fierce, unclockable bitches!”) went to a doctor in Waikiki who prescribed hormones for girls as young as sixteen."

Show 1 more definition

6
Unreadable; undetectable. broadly
"...plants a stake that casts no shadow, and who himself stands there unclockable, beyond the nothing-new reach of the sun."

"Oddy also claims that any car you intend to buy almost certainly has a genuine mileage as complicated electronics make them famously unclockable."

From un- + clockable.

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.