cuckoo clock
noun
: a wall or shelf clock that announces the hours by sounds resembling a cuckoo's call
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Located just south of the landmark American Brewery (the structure that looks like some fantasist vastly enlarged a cuckoo clock) this grouping of public utility structures fell on excruciatingly hard times.
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Jacques Kelly, Baltimore Sun, 8 Feb. 2025
Condit screamed to her mother to call 911 and hurried to collect a few belongings: documents, pillows, a cuckoo clock.
—Laura J. Nelson, Los Angeles Times, 25 Jan. 2025
At each location there will be around five dozen vendors who come from all over Europe as well as Illinois, and this is the place to buy real cuckoo clocks form the Black Forest.
—Larry Olmsted, Forbes, 24 Oct. 2024
Walsh also discovered whether Welles actually wrote the famous cuckoo clock speech Lime gives to Martins on the ferris wheel.
—Gregory James Wakeman, IndieWire, 11 Oct. 2024
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Jacques Kelly, Baltimore Sun, 8 Feb. 2025
Condit screamed to her mother to call 911 and hurried to collect a few belongings: documents, pillows, a cuckoo clock.
—Laura J. Nelson, Los Angeles Times, 25 Jan. 2025
At each location there will be around five dozen vendors who come from all over Europe as well as Illinois, and this is the place to buy real cuckoo clocks form the Black Forest.
—Larry Olmsted, Forbes, 24 Oct. 2024
Walsh also discovered whether Welles actually wrote the famous cuckoo clock speech Lime gives to Martins on the ferris wheel.
—Gregory James Wakeman, IndieWire, 11 Oct. 2024
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“Cuckoo clock.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cuckoo%20clock. Accessed 3 Mar. 2025.
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