Usually means: Stares openly in awkward amazement.
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noun:  A cuckoo.
noun:  A fool; a simpleton; a stupid or clumsy person.
verb:  To stare or gape stupidly.
verb:  To stare conspicuously.
verb:  (colloquial, vulgar) To suck.
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