Phrase guide
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Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
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name
Nickname for Netherlands national football team
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: dated
Topics: ball-games, games, hobbies, lifestyle, soccer, sports
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Synonyms: The Flying Dutchmen
Antonyms: none provided
noun
A person or organism with a mechanistic morality or lack of free will.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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History
From clockwork orange, after the team's mechanical precision and orange uniform. The nickname was mostly used in the 1970s in reference to Johan Cruyff's total football tatic, but still see some usage to this day.
From the novel A Clockwork Orange (1962) by Anthony Burgess, in which the main character is programmed to be incapable of antisocial behavior.
