(transport) A service pattern where services depart at regular intervals, and thus at the same number of minutes past each hour.

(UK, historical) A large clock, once hung in inns, erroneously thought to derive from a tax on clocks.

(idiomatic, sports) To waste time at the end of a match such that it is terminated by running out of time, or during a match so a time penalty is made less severe.

simple past tense and past participle of turn back the clock

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of turn back the clock

present participle of turn back the clock

(figuratively, idiomatic) To return to a previous state.

(idiomatic, intransitive) To run down the clock.

plural of tall-case clock

a clock that only needs to be wound once every week.