cuckoo clock
noun
: a wall or shelf clock that announces the hours by sounds resembling a cuckoo's call
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An antique cuckoo clock on the mantel ticked off the seconds, a kind of mechanical memento mori.
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Gideon Lewis-Kraus, New Yorker, 13 June 2025
The cuckoo clocks in the window at the entrance attracted curious looks and made for plenty of social media moments.
—Luisa Zargani, Footwear News, 14 Apr. 2025
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
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.
—Jacques Kelly, Baltimore Sun, 8 Feb. 2025
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Gideon Lewis-Kraus, New Yorker, 13 June 2025
The cuckoo clocks in the window at the entrance attracted curious looks and made for plenty of social media moments.
—Luisa Zargani, Footwear News, 14 Apr. 2025
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
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.
—Jacques Kelly, Baltimore Sun, 8 Feb. 2025
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“Cuckoo clock.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cuckoo%20clock. Accessed 18 Jul. 2025.
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