clocker
Americannoun
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a person who times racehorses during tryouts to determine their speed.
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an official who times a race.
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a person who maintains a record of the flow of traffic, as of visitors to a museum.
Etymology
Origin of clocker
Example Sentences
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Stewards determined there were “extenuating circumstances” with the electronic device, but it was the Pimlico clocker whose figure carried the day.
From Washington Times ● May 18, 2023
Or was it when the clocker at Saratoga recorded his workout but refused to put down the real time because it was so fast no one would believe him.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 8, 2017
Through her binoculars, Contreras, a track clocker paid to time horses during workouts, watched as one of the horses, a 2-year-old filly named Flyfly Fly Delilah, suddenly tumbled to the freshly tilled track.
From Washington Post ● May 11, 2015
The three placing judges have more than 140 years’ combined experience at the racetrack and have held nearly every job: groom, clocker, assistant trainer, jockey agent, patrol judge.
From New York Times ● Jun. 7, 2014
And every clocker on the track got him too!
From Old Man Curry Race Track Stories by Charles E. (Charles Emmett) Van Loan
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