A medium-sized bird known for its distinctive call and habit of laying its eggs in the nests of other birds.
The cuckoo's call is often heard in the early spring.
A person who is considered crazy or foolish.
He was acting like a real cuckoo at the party last night.
A type of clock that announces the time with a sound resembling the call of a cuckoo bird.
The cuckoo clock chimed every hour, much to the delight of the children.
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To make the sound characteristic of a cuckoo bird.
Every morning, the clock would cuckoo at precisely 6 AM, waking everyone in the house.
To deposit eggs in the nest of (another bird), thereby getting the host to raise the offspring; figuratively, to foist one's responsibilities on someone else.
Brood-parasitic species like the common cuckoo will cuckoo another bird's nest and leave the chicks to be reared by the unsuspecting hosts.
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Silly or slightly crazy.
She had a cuckoo idea to start a business selling pet rocks.