cock
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Danh từ
noun- 1.
A male bird, especially:
- 2.
(countable, uncountable)A valve or tap for controlling flow in plumbing.
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(countable, uncountable)The hammer of a firearm trigger mechanism.
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(colloquial, countable, uncountable, vulgar)A penis.
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(countable, uncountable)(curling) The circle at the end of the rink.
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(countable, uncountable)The state of being cocked; an upward turn, tilt or angle.
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(Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, countable, derogatory, slang, uncountable)A stupid, obnoxious or contemptible person.
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(Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, derogatory, slang, uncountable)Nonsense; rubbish; a fraud.
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(UK, countable, obsolete, slang, uncountable)An apocryphal story supposedly describing a public event, once sold by street hawkers.
This title ['Death Hunter'] refers not only to his vending accounts of all the murders that become topics of public conversation, but to his being a 'murderer' on his own account, as in the sale of 'cocks' mentioned incidentally in this narrative. If the truth be saleable , a running patterer prefers selling the truth […]
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(Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, countable, especially, slang, uncountable)(slang, UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, especially as term of address) A man; a fellow.
All right, cock?
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(countable, uncountable)A boastful tilt of one's head or hat.
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(countable, informal, uncountable)Shuttlecock.
Động từ
verb- 1.
(ambitransitive)To lift the cock of a firearm or crossbow; to prepare (a gun or crossbow) to be fired.
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(intransitive)To be prepared to be triggered by having the cock lifted.
In the darkness, the gun cocked loudly.
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(transitive)To erect; to turn up.
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(British, Ireland, slang, transitive)To copulate with; (by extension, as with fuck) to mess up, to damage, to destroy.
Foster's Lager TV commercial, 1980s "Please tell me the way to Cockfosters." ... "Drink it warm, mate."
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(transitive)To turn or twist something upwards or to one side; to lift or tilt (e.g. headwear) boastfully.
He cocked his hat jauntily.
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(dated, intransitive)To turn (the eye) obliquely and partially close its lid, as an expression of derision or insinuation.
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(dated, intransitive)To strut; to swagger; to look big, pert, or menacing.
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(obsolete, transitive)To make a nestle-cock of, to pamper or spoil (a child).
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(transitive)To form into piles.
interjection
interjection- 1.
(Ireland, UK, slang)Expression of annoyance.
name
name- 1.
(obsolete)A corruption of the word God, used in oaths.
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From Middle English cok, from Old English coc, cocc (cock, male bird), from *kokk, from Proto-Germanic *kukkaz (cock), probably of origin.