This is when something is running smoothly like the gears in a clock,but then asshole has to but in with his/her two cents and fuck everything up. The worthless opinion of this tool is like taking a monkey wrench and jammin it all up in the gears of your otherwise smooth running machine.
Everything for the party was going just as planned, until that asshole got all drunk and threw a monkey wrench into the clockworks.
by TV CAR March 27, 2010
by Bill cosby’s boyfriend June 07, 2023
A safe way of saying "Male Masturbation" in front of an anti-sex snowflake. It comes from the word "Cock-work".
Male 1: Sorry I couldn't make it to the meeting yesterday, I was so busy with clockwork that I forgot.
Male 2: Haha gotta love clockwork
Snowflake: Confused yet still acceptable to my terms of vocabulary use and it doesn't seem like it invades nor defies my restrictions of sexually-referenced wording.
Male 2: Haha gotta love clockwork
Snowflake: Confused yet still acceptable to my terms of vocabulary use and it doesn't seem like it invades nor defies my restrictions of sexually-referenced wording.
by 123CountWithMe September 25, 2021
A previously favorite song which has become tainted by bittersweet emotions or over-commercialized to the point of losing its nostalgic qualities.
I used to love that Beatles song until Nike clockworked it. It's ruined for me forever. clockwork clockwork orange nostalgia overcommercialization
by Darlalalala July 24, 2015
When comments especially critical ones are edited, deleted or withheld from being published, normally by the event organiser, especially in regards to social media.
by DrFilth July 02, 2023
by Jaysean Byron December 13, 2023
From the franchise, Dishonored, Dishonored 2 and Dishonored: Death Of The Outsider. A clockwork machine made by Kirin Jindosh. An expensive piece of a robot, made to guard mansions, grand palaces and military structures in general.
Person 1: "Have you seen one of those Clockwork Soldiers? Those weird robots?"
Person 2: "Yeah, they're expensive as fuck!!"
Person 2: "Yeah, they're expensive as fuck!!"
by soma !! June 12, 2023