"queer as a clockwork orange" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "Cockney phrase from East London indicating something bizarre internally, but appearing natural and normal on the surface. Author Anthony Burgess appropriated the phrase for the title of his novella A Clockwork Orange.",
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      "glosses": [
        "Strange, odd, unusual."
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        "(simile) Strange, odd, unusual."
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          "sense": "strange, unusual",
          "word": "queer as a nine bob note"
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          "sense": "strange, unusual",
          "word": "queer as a three dollar bill"
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        {
          "_dis1": "96 4",
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          "word": "queer as a coot"
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        {
          "ref": "1997, Tony Harrison, quoted in Sandie Byrne's introduction to Tony Harrison: Loiner (ed Sandie Byrne, 1997)",
          "text": "He sauntered the flunkied restaurant, queer /As a clockwork orange and not scared. /God, I was grateful for the nights we shared."
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        "Unusually camp, unusually homosexual."
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        "(simile) Unusually camp, unusually homosexual."
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  "etymology_text": "Cockney phrase from East London indicating something bizarre internally, but appearing natural and normal on the surface. Author Anthony Burgess appropriated the phrase for the title of his novella A Clockwork Orange.",
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        "Unusually camp, unusually homosexual."
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      "sense": "strange, unusual",
      "word": "queer as a nine bob note"
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      "word": "queer as a three dollar bill"
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