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- noun Alternative form of
clock-watcher .
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Examples
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I'm a clockwatcher, so I like having a little cognitive load associated with checking the time -- it slows me down and makes me recognize when I'm checking the clock (again).
Boing Boing 2008
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He starred with hopeful eyes that beyond the mountain-range, their lied such inventions. as of late, i now say, in the person i am, it can be seen that i am a dragon in a waiting room pacing and smoking and flaming my flames black coffee.clockwatcher. magic eighball roller when the nurse calls my name and brings me to sit on the butcher-paper covered table, the doctor will come and take my temperature and then turn me out of a dragon and into something that is really worth-while. our Past skeleton = our Future skeleton
the-forest Diary Entry the-forest 2004
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