Cock

/kɒk/ · noun

Meaning

A male bird, especially:.

Definitions by Sense

1. A male bird, especially:
2. A valve or tap for controlling flow in plumbing.
3. The hammer of a firearm trigger mechanism.
4. (colloquial, vulgar) A penis.
5. (curling) The circle at the end of the rink.
6. The state of being cocked; an upward turn, tilt or angle.
7. (UK, Commonwealth, Ireland, derogatory, slang) A stupid, obnoxious or contemptible person.
8. (UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, derogatory, slang, uncountable) Nonsense; rubbish; a fraud.

Example Sentences

The liquor is discharged from the cock S into liquor cans V […], from which it is transferred to the sugar in the moulds. W represents one of the traps or stairs which communicate with respective floors of the sugarhouse.

She doesn't see his cock, but she doesn't want to, what's the point, right?

My cock is much bigger than yours / My cock can walk right through the door / With a feeling so pure / It's got you screaming back for more

[…] with a knowing cock of his eye to his next neighbour. Of this person little need be said.

[…] in 1803; my eyes transmogrified […]; my nose had lost its pretty cock, and had grown elegantly hooked; and […]

One day, however, by her self-important gait, the side-way turn of her head, and the cock of her eye, as she pried into one and another nook of the garden, […]

"You used to talk an awful lot of cock."

That Hitler's armies can't be beat is just a load of cock, / For Marshal Timoshenko's boys are pissing through von Bock […]

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• cocks
• cocking
• cocked

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