Definition of "clockface" [clockface]

• Alternative spelling of clock face. (noun)

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• "Bursts of static on police radios signalled the terse but clear messages which were being relayed to inform the marksmen of their colleagues 'positions, using the military' clockface 'terminology to avoid any chance of a' blue-on-blue 'situation developing when they might mistakenly shoot each other."
• "Using 'clockface' headways helps maintain ridership."
• "Coughing and burping without a hint of embarrassment, it carries us from the train station, with its cheerful round clockface and neat front of red brick, over the weeping-willow-lined river and up the road, past the Tesco and Superdrug and a handful of pubs, past the castle and the mall and Poundland my favorite store because everything only costs a pound."