What's the meaning of clocky? Been seeing it on TikTok.
07/21/25 10:31pm
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"Clocky" is a slang term that means someone is easily indentifiable as a transgender person. The term is an attempt at making a cutesy version of the word "clocked," which means noticing a trait or feature that a person may be trying to hide. If someone says that another person is clocky, then they're trying to say that the person is visibly trans.
While some people in the trans community use the term with each other in a friendly way, "clocky" could be considered an insult coming from a cis person. Other transgender people think the term is still insulting because it means the person isn't "passing" as their gender and not fitting in with the crowd.
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While some people in the trans community use the term with each other in a friendly way, "clocky" could be considered an insult coming from a cis person. Other transgender people think the term is still insulting because it means the person isn't "passing" as their gender and not fitting in with the crowd.
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