cuckoo clock

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   clock that announces the hours with a sound like the call of the cuckoo

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Questions about cuckoo clock

What does cuckoo clock mean?

cuckoo clock means "clock that announces the hours with a sound like the call of the cuckoo".

Is cuckoo clock a common word?

cuckoo clock is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.