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clockwork oranges

clockwork oranges is the plural of clockwork orange.

Meaning of clockwork orange

Noun

clockwork orange (plural clockwork oranges)

  1. A person or organism with a mechanistic morality or lack of free will.
    • Contrarily, he may be saying, “Look what your computerized, commodified society has made of me—a clockwork orange, for all appearances organic but mechanical."1996, Mark Dery, Escape Velocity

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Questions about clockwork oranges

What is clockwork oranges the plural of?
Clockwork oranges is the plural of clockwork orange.

Words near clockwork oranges in the dictionary

  1. clockwise
  2. clockwisely
  3. clockwiseness
  4. clockwork
  5. clockwork orange
  6. clockwork oranges
  7. clockwork radio
  8. clockwork radios
  9. clockwork universe
  10. clockwork universes
  11. clockworklike

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