Usually means: Bird known for laying parasitically.
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  1. cuckoo: Merriam-Webster
  2. cuckoo: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. cuckoo: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. cuckoo: Collins English Dictionary
  5. cuckoo: Vocabulary.com
  6. Cuckoo, cuckoo: Wordnik
  7. cuckoo: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. cuckoo: Wiktionary
  9. cuckoo: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. cuckoo: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. cuckoo: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Cuckoo, cuckoo: Dictionary.com
  13. cuckoo: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Cuckoo (Curve album), Cuckoo (TV series), Cuckoo (album), Cuckoo (disambiguation), Cuckoo (game), Cuckoo (sniper), Cuckoo, The Cuckoo (film), The Cuckoo (novel), The Cuckoo (song): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Cuckoo: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. cuckoo: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. cuckoo: Rhymezone
  18. Cuckoo: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. cuckoo: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. Cuckoo, Cuckoo: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  21. cuckoo: FreeDictionary.org
  22. cuckoo: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. cuckoo: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. cuckoo: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  25. cuckoo: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Cuckoo: Encyclopedia of Organ Stops

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. cuckoo: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. cuckoo: Idioms

Religion (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Cuckoo: Easton Bible
  2. Cuckoo: Smith's Bible Dictionary

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. cuckoo, cuckoo, cuckoo, cuckoo, cuckoo: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Cuckoo: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Cuckoo: Card Games

(Note: See cuckooed as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  Any of various birds, of the order Cuculiformes, famous for laying its eggs in the nests of other species; but especially a common cuckoo (Cuculus canorus), that has a characteristic two-note call.
noun:  The sound of that particular bird.
noun:  The bird-shaped figure found in cuckoo clocks.
noun:  The cuckoo clock itself.
noun:  A person who inveigles themselves into a place where they should not be (used especially in the phrase a cuckoo in the nest).
noun:  (slang) Someone who is crazy.
verb:  To make the call of a cuckoo.
verb:  To repeat something incessantly.
verb:  (UK, law enforcement) To take over the home of a vulnerable person for the purposes of carrying out organized crime in a concealed way.
adjective:  (slang) Crazy; not sane.
noun:  Alternative form of coo-coo (Barbadian food) [The two-note vocalisation made by the male of the common cuckoo (Cuculus canorus), or imitation of this by a cuckoo clock.]

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