get one's clock cleaned

verb

To be thoroughly defeated.

Meanings

verbget one's clock cleaned (third-person singular simple present gets one's clock cleaned, present participle getting one's clock cleaned, simple past got one's clock cleaned, past participle got one's clock cleaned or gotten one's clock cleaned)

present singular third person gets one's clock cleaned · participle present getting one's clock cleaned · past got one's clock cleaned · participle past got one's clock cleaned · participle past gotten one's clock cleaned

  1. idiomaticTo be thoroughly defeated.
    1. idiomaticTo be thoroughly beaten up.
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