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half-cocked
- not fully capable; not completely thought out; unfinished; incomplete US, 1833
Derives from the mechanism of a gun. - You know, we’re not going into that thing half-cocked. I made a thorough survey of the consumer situation before I laid my plans. — Max Shulman, The Zebra Derby, p. 54, 1946
- But I wasn’t rushing off half-cocked. — Malcolm X and Alex Haley, The Autobiography of Malcolm X, p. 140, 1964
- A half-cocked ponce[.] — Ian Dury, Blackmail Man, 1977
- drunk AUSTRALIA, 1937
▶ go off half-cocked
generally, to start without being ready; in sex, to ejaculate prematurely or without being fully erect UK, 1809 After the action of a gun.- I don’t want them going off half cocked and fucking things up even more. — Ted Lewis, Jack Carter’s Law, p. 64, 1974
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