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Big ben

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  1. 1
    The hour bell in the Elizabeth Tower (formerly known as the Clock Tower), adjacent to the Houses of Parliament in Westminster, London, United Kingdom.
  2. 2
    The clock tower itself. metonymically

    "He pulled up his sleeve and there on his scrawny arm hung a Rolex the size of Big Ben."

Etymology

Disputed, possibly after Sir Benjamin Hall, who oversaw the installation of the Great Bell, or after English boxer Ben Caunt.

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