clock vs hotfoot

clock

noun
  • A pattern near the heel of a sock or stocking. 

  • The odometer of a motor vehicle. 

  • An instrument that measures or keeps track of time; a non-wearable timepiece. 

  • A luck-based patience or solitaire card game with the cards laid out to represent the face of a clock. 

  • A time clock. 

  • The seed head of a dandelion. 

  • A common noun relating to an instrument that measures or keeps track of time. 

  • An electrical signal that synchronizes timing among digital circuits of semiconductor chips or modules. 

  • A CPU clock cycle, or T-state. 

  • A large beetle, especially the European dung beetle (Geotrupes stercorarius). 

verb
  • To measure the speed of. 

  • To ornament (e.g. the side of a stocking) with figured work. 

  • To identify someone as being transgender. 

  • To take notice of; to realise; to recognize someone or something. 

  • To beat a video game. 

  • To measure the duration of. 

  • To hit (someone) heavily. 

  • To falsify the reading of the odometer of a vehicle. 

hotfoot

noun
  • The prank of secretly inserting a match between the sole and upper of a victim's shoe and then lighting it. 

verb
  • To run (a distance). 

adj
  • Moving with haste or zeal. 

adv
  • Hastily; without delay. 

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