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cluck noun- a gullible fool US, 1906
- Don’t be a cluck! Sure, New York is the home of Tiffany and Cartier, Bonwit and Saks, Milgrim and Bergdorf-Goodman. But Gotham gals don’t flop for samps, simps, or retail buyers. — Jack Lait and Lee Mortimer, New York Confidential, p. 126, 1948
- Some other time, baby. I got to go find that cluck. — Philip Wylie, Opus 21, p. 288, 1949
- I find myself eating at some greasy spoon next to a liquor store and talking to the most embittered cluck this side of the Continental Divide. — Clancy Sigal, Going Away, p. 134, 1961
- Don’t a one of you clucks know what I’m talking about enough to give us a hand? — Ken Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, p. 136, 1962
- Guy that’s worth, easy, forty fifty million, he cheats on a hundred-dollar round of golf and all the clucks, the guys that play with him, know it. — Elmore Leonard, Cat Chaser, p. 27, 1982
- a crack cocaine user US
- — US Department of Justice, Street Terms, October 1994
- — Mark S. Fleisher, Beggars & Thieves, p. 288, 1995
- counterfeit money US
- — Vincent J. Monteleone, Criminal Slang, p. 53, 1949
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