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cock
verb- to have sex US
- — Malachi Andrews and Paul T. Owens, Black Language, p. 111, 1973
- “You listening? You don’t cock me without a glove.” — John Ridley, Love is a Racket, p. 297, 1998
- to prepare an aircraft for take-off US
- When the crews were not preflighting the airplanes, “cocking” them for instant takeoff, they were flying the simulator[.] — Walter J. Boyne and Steven L. Thompson, The Wild Blue, p. 265, 1986
- to trick someone; to outsmart someone GUYANA, 1975
- — Richard Allsopp, Dictionary of Caribbean English Usage, p. 159, 1996
▶ cock a deaf ’un
to pretend not to hear someone; or deliberately not listen to, or ignore someone UK
A variant, possibly a mishearing, of COP A DEAF[W]hen the name of Signalman Speight was called over the tannoy just cocked deaf-uns, and spent some of the most marvellous months of the war[.] — Johnny Speight, It Stands to Reason, p. 63, 1973▶ cock ten
to sit with your legs crossed as others work GUYANA- — Richard Allsopp, Dictionary of Caribbean English Usage, p. 159, 1996
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