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UK
/kˈɒk/
]
[ US /ˈkɑk/ ]
[ US /ˈkɑk/ ]
NOUN
- obscene terms for penis
- faucet consisting of a rotating device for regulating flow of a liquid
- the part of a gunlock that strikes the percussion cap when the trigger is pulled
- adult male bird
- adult male chicken
VERB
-
to walk with a lofty proud gait, often in an attempt to impress others
He struts around like a rooster in a hen house - set the trigger of a firearm back for firing
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tilt or slant to one side
cock one's head
How To Use cock In A Sentence
- I try to teach them a bit of Cockney but it's a lost cause. The Sun
- After the seacock or gate valve is closed, remove the hose temporarily so that it drains and then use an absorbent cloth or turkey baster to eliminate any residual water in the nipple.
- A cockatrice is a Dragon with a Crown on his head, and hatched by a Viper on a Cock's Egg. The Viper was the Symbol of Annotations
- Commissioned in 1963 to make a film about America's first successful quintuplet birth, Leacock and Joyce Chopra captured the quints' mother's anxiety at her sudden celebrity and the surrounding South Dakota community's eagerness to cash in on it. The Man Who Held Up a Mirror to America
- Except for the frequent conferences now in the new Forty-second Street offices that commanded a view of two rivers and a vast battledoor and shuttlecock of the city, it was the first time in all those years that stretched from the night at the Waldorf that they had sat thus tête-à-tête. Star-Dust
- Well, then, I'll get the port cable bent and the anchor a-cockbill ready for lettin 'go before touchin' the canvas. A Middy in Command A Tale of the Slave Squadron
- Each item was skewered on a cocktail stick and laid like sun rays around the plate, which also had a flower intricately carved out of turnip for decoration.
- It is the failure of the diaphragmatic pinchcock to open, as in the normal deglutitory cycle, rather than a spasmodic tightness, that obstructs the food. Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery
- He chased the unmigratory tropi-ducks from their shrewd-hidden nests, walked circumspectly among the crocodiles hauled out of water for slumber, and crept under the jungle-roof and spied upon the snow-white saucy cockatoos, the fierce ospreys, the heavy-flighted buzzards, the lories and kingfishers, and the absurdly garrulous little pygmy parrots. CHAPTER XV
- As the old cock crows, the young (one) learns.