cock
IPA: kˈɑk
noun
- A male bird, especially:
- A rooster: a male gallinaceous bird, especially a male domestic chicken (Gallus gallus domesticus).
- A cock pigeon.
- A valve or tap for controlling flow in plumbing.
- The hammer of a firearm trigger mechanism.
- (colloquial, vulgar) A penis.
- (curling) The circle at the end of the rink.
- The state of being cocked; an upward turn, tilt or angle.
- (Britain, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, derogatory, slang) A stupid, obnoxious or contemptible person.
- (Britain, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, derogatory, slang, uncountable) Nonsense; rubbish; a fraud.
- (slang, Britain, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, especially as term of address) A man; a fellow.
- A boastful tilt of one's head or hat.
- (informal) Shuttlecock.
- A vane in the shape of a cock; a weathercock.
- (dated, often humorous) A chief person; a leader or master.
- (obsolete) A leading thing.
- The crow of a cock, especially the first crow in the morning; cockcrow.
- A male fish, especially a salmon or trout.
- The style or gnomon of a sundial.
- The indicator of a balance.
- The bridge piece that affords a bearing for the pivot of a balance in a clock or watch.
- (Southern US, where it is now rare and dated; and African-American Vernacular, where it is still sometimes used) Vulva, vagina.
- Hay-cock, a small conical pile of hay.
- (obsolete) A corruption of the word God, used in oaths.
- A surname.
- Abbreviation of cock-boat, a type of small boat.
verb
- (transitive, intransitive) To lift the cock of a firearm or crossbow; to prepare (a gun or crossbow) to be fired.
- (intransitive) To be prepared to be triggered by having the cock lifted.
- (transitive) To erect; to turn up.
- (Britain, transitive, slang) To copulate with; (by extension, as with fuck) to mess up, to damage, to destroy.
- (transitive) To turn or twist something upwards or to one side; to lift or tilt (e.g. headwear) boastfully.
- (intransitive, dated) To turn (the eye) obliquely and partially close its lid, as an expression of derision or insinuation.
- (intransitive, dated) To strut; to swagger; to look big, pert, or menacing.
- (transitive, obsolete) To make a nestle-cock of, to pamper or spoil (a child).
- (transitive) To form into piles.
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Examples of "cock" in Sentences
- Use any slang acceptable in a group and the term cock stopper is right in this context.
- If all you are thinking about is sex (as the term cock block would imply) then that is disrespectful.
- 'I don't know, sir,' she began quietly, 'by what right you speak to me about what you call my cock-and-bull stories.
- "I just went into Google and typed in 'cock' and 'boobs' and stuff," recalled one lad of his early online interests.
- And the word cock is a halfway dirty word; fifty percent dirty, dirty half the time, depending on what you mean by it.
- To me he was an upper-form demi-god and I, seeing nothing odd in his actions, for he was what I called the cock of the school, voiced my trembling plea.
- He had always laughed at what he called my cock-and-bull story about the colonel, but he looked very scared and puzzled now that the same thing had come upon himself.
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