cock
Other forms: cocked; cocks; cocking
Cock is most often used to refer to either birds or guns. A cock is a rooster, but it's also the hammer on a gun that you adjust so you can fire it.
You might hear the word cock used to mean "penis," but that's a vulgar form of the word, so be sure you're in the right company if you opt to use it. A cock is a male bird, particularly a rooster. When you cock a gun, you raise its cock to make it ready for firing. When you cock something in a certain direction, you are tilting it that way.
Definitions of cock
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adult male chicken
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synonyms:
rooster
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cockerel
a young domestic cock; not older than one year
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Gallus gallus, chicken
a domestic fowl bred for flesh or eggs; believed to have been developed from the red jungle fowl
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cockerel
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adult male bird
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fighting cock, gamecock
a cock bred and trained for fighting
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bird
warm-blooded egg-laying vertebrates characterized by feathers and forelimbs modified as wings
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fighting cock, gamecock
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to walk with a lofty proud gait, often in an attempt to impress others
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set the trigger of a firearm back for firing
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the part of a gunlock that strikes the percussion cap when the trigger is pulled
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faucet consisting of a rotating device for regulating flow of a liquid
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tilt or slant to one side
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obscene terms for penis
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