cock

[ UK /kˈɒk/ ]
[ US /ˈkɑk/ ]
NOUN
  1. obscene terms for penis
  2. faucet consisting of a rotating device for regulating flow of a liquid
  3. the part of a gunlock that strikes the percussion cap when the trigger is pulled
  4. adult male bird
  5. adult male chicken
VERB
  1. to walk with a lofty proud gait, often in an attempt to impress others
    He struts around like a rooster in a hen house
  2. set the trigger of a firearm back for firing
  3. tilt or slant to one side
    cock one's head
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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.
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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. 
  • The foreign birds, most of these parrots and cockatoos, unfortunately need to be kept in cages.
  • How about how the door of your car opens as you back up from the burnout to let burnout smoke escape the cockpit?
  • Female cockroaches carry their fertilized eggs around in these pod-like sacks called ootheca. Boing Boing
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