Meaning of unclockable | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Having an odometer that cannot be altered to provide a fake reading.
2. At a speed that cannot be measured.
3. At a time that cannot be measured or identified.
4. Being undetectably homosexual.
5. Not recognizable as transgender or a drag performer; passing.
6. Unreadable; undetectable.
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Examples

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

“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.”

“Sharon can take off at unclockable speeds and be racing down the highway before the guys have shifted into fourth.”

“Thanks to the internet, the American language seems to be exploding at an almost unclockable pace.”

“Yet here’s the more pervasive problem: I don’t buy the logic that a single race as Saratoga is unclockable when every week, at tracks all across the country, races are being “silently” contested with skewed fractional and final times, largely because of ambiguous “about” distances, clocking equipment malfunctions, human errors, and ever-changing timing beam run-ups that vary not only from track to track, but from race to race over the same courses.”

“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.”

“Brother Anancy, like most just-arrive grabalicious samfie-man, drinking more than one spider fair share of whites, and people seeing him as he spangle staggering round the village at all sort of unclockable hours.”

“For unclockable hours I plead Sloughing my heat for the elm's gilded leaves.”

“Elders en nergens elders, forever arriving, forever saying vaarwel, the nether we posit there, the coast of a landfall with unfamiliar light, with time unclockable and space uncertain and walled.”

“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.”

“With the notable exception of Ray's best friend Kyle, all the black queer men in Harris' novels are “unclockable,” that is, they present an image of heterosexuality.”

“The figure of the “unclockable” thug-like figure, in his malleability and inaccessibility to the larger public, has become the enabling device for more punitie discussions of DL men -- rather than the middle-class affluent brothers who also participate in discreet performances of same-sex desire.”

“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.”

“I had never met anyone like her, and I was blown away by how unclockable — or passable for a woman — she was.”

“Her vocals were excellent, her impression was almost unclockable, and the queen proved why she deserved to stay until the end of the competition.”

“...plants a stake that casts no shadow, and who himself stands there unclockable, beyond the nothing-new reach of the sun.”

“It causes stomach pain, weight loss, diarrhea, fatigue, and more, but is largely unclockable to an outsider's gaze.”

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