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Alarm clock   /əlˈɑrm klɑk/   Listen
Alarm clock

noun
1.
A clock that wakes a sleeper at some preset time.  Synonym: alarm.






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"Alarm clock" Quotes from Famous Books



... quite as gentlemanly about not locking them up as you have been, sir. I should make a few changes, of course; nothing radical, however. And, really, that little back room of mine is very cozy. What would come hardest for you, I suppose, would be the getting up at seven-thirty; but with a good alarm clock, sir, you—" ...
— Wilt Thou Torchy • Sewell Ford

... I had my first look at the summer-house from inside. It was comparatively new; it had not been there six years before. A roomy place, with pictures on the walls, and even an alarm clock—now run down—chairs with cushions, a table, and an upholstered settee covered with red plush. The ...
— Wanderers • Knut Hamsun

... "my time being too valuable for me to sleep, I will go wake up that nigger engine-driver and set his alarm clock at five-thirty. Five-thirty, I believe you said. All right; good-night." And whistling cheerfully to himself MacWilliams disappeared up the hill, his body hidden in the darkness and his legs showing fantastically in the light of ...
— Soldiers of Fortune • Richard Harding Davis

... woman has lain awake half the night in order to be able to call her husband in time to catch his train it's rather hard to be hated for it, just like an alarm clock. ...
— A Guide to Men - Being Encore Reflections of a Bachelor Girl • Helen Rowland

... sure something would happen when I dreamed of suffrigettes this mornin'. An' that comes of playin' pranks, Mr. Trenholme. If it wasn't for that alarm clock——" ...
— The Strange Case of Mortimer Fenley • Louis Tracy


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