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cock

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What does cock mean?

noun

  1. A rooster: a male gallinaceous bird, especially a male domestic chicken (Gallus gallus domesticus).
  2. A cock pigeon.
  3. A valve or tap for controlling flow in plumbing.
More meanings (33)

noun

  1. The hammer of a firearm trigger mechanism.
  2. The circle at the end of the rink.
  3. The state of being cocked; an upward turn, tilt or angle.
  4. (slang) A man; a fellow.
  5. A boastful tilt of one's head or hat.
  6. (informal) Shuttlecock.
  7. A vane in the shape of a cock; a weathercock.
  8. The crow of a cock, especially the first crow in the morning; cockcrow.
  9. A male fish, especially a salmon or trout.
  10. The style or gnomon of a sundial.
  11. The indicator of a balance.
  12. The bridge piece that affords a bearing for the pivot of a balance in a clock or watch.
  13. A small conical pile of hay or grass.
  14. Vulva, vagina.
  15. Abbreviation of cock-boat, a type of small boat.
  16. (vulgar) A penis.
  17. (derogatory, slang) A stupid, obnoxious or contemptible person.
  18. (derogatory, slang) Nonsense; rubbish; a fraud.
  19. (obsolete, slang) An apocryphal story supposedly describing a public event, once sold by street hawkers.
  20. (dated, humorous) A chief person; a leader or master.
  21. (obsolete) A leading thing.

verb

  1. To lift the cock of a firearm or crossbow; to prepare (a gun or crossbow) to be fired.
  2. To be prepared to be triggered by having the cock lifted.
  3. To erect; to turn up.
  4. (slang) To copulate with; (by extension, as with fuck) to mess up, to damage, to destroy.
  5. To turn or twist something upwards or to one side; to lift or tilt (e.g. headwear) boastfully.
  6. To form into piles.
  7. (dated) To turn (the eye) obliquely and partially close its lid, as an expression of derision or insinuation.
  8. (dated) To strut; to swagger; to look big, pert, or menacing.
  9. (obsolete) To make a nestle-cock of, to pamper or spoil (a child).

interjection

  1. (slang) Expression of annoyance.

proper noun

  1. A surname.
  2. (obsolete) A corruption of the word God, used in oaths.
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Between these two dates the Habrons had been heard to threaten to "do for" Cock if he were not more careful.
H. B. (Henry Brodribb) IrvingA Book of Remarkable CriminalsProject Gutenberg ebook #446
But even then the morning cock crew loud, And at the sound it shrunk in haste away, And vanish’d from our sight.
William ShakespeareThe Complete Works of William ShakespeareProject Gutenberg ebook #100
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And you're just as bad as he is with your cock— and-a-bull stories about catching his eye and his whistling an air.
Arthur Sullivan; W. S. (William Schwenck) GilbertThe Complete Plays of Gilbert and SullivanProject Gutenberg ebook #808
He separated the fighters, then shut the Blue cock up in a coop, determined to get rid of him in some way.
Ernest Thompson SetonAnimal HeroesProject Gutenberg ebook #2284
Masterman has grafted with the inner membrane of a hen's egg, and a Mexican surgeon, Altramirano, used the gills of a cock.
George M. (George Milbrey) Gould; Walter L. (Walter Lytle) PyleAnomalies and Curiosities of MedicineProject Gutenberg ebook #747