COCK

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cock mean? 

• COCK (noun)
  The noun COCK has 5 senses:

1. obscene terms for penis

2. faucet consisting of a rotating device for regulating flow of a liquid

3. the part of a gunlock that strikes the percussion cap when the trigger is pulled

4. adult male chicken

5. adult male bird

  Familiarity information: COCK used as a noun is common.

• COCK (verb)
  The verb COCK has 3 senses:

1. tilt or slant to one side

2. set the trigger of a firearm back for firing

3. to walk with a lofty proud gait, often in an attempt to impress others

  Familiarity information: COCK used as a verb is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COCK (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Obscene terms for penis

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

cock; dick; pecker; prick; putz; shaft; tool

Hypernyms ("cock" is a kind of...):

member; penis; phallus (the male sex organ ('member' is a euphemism))

Domain usage:

dirty word; filth; obscenity; smut; vulgarism (an offensive or indecent word or phrase)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Faucet consisting of a rotating device for regulating flow of a liquid

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

cock; stopcock; turncock

Hypernyms ("cock" is a kind of...):

faucet; spigot (a regulator for controlling the flow of a liquid from a reservoir)

Sense 3

Meaning:

The part of a gunlock that strikes the percussion cap when the trigger is pulled

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

cock; hammer

Hypernyms ("cock" is a kind of...):

striker (the part of a mechanical device that strikes something)

Holonyms ("cock" is a part of...):

firing mechanism; gunlock (the action that ignites the charge in a firearm)

Derivation:

cock (set the trigger of a firearm back for firing)

Sense 4

Meaning:

Adult male chicken

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

cock; rooster

Hypernyms ("cock" is a kind of...):

chicken; Gallus gallus (a domestic fowl bred for flesh or eggs; believed to have been developed from the red jungle fowl)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "cock"):

cockerel (a young domestic cock; not older than one year)

Sense 5

Meaning:

Adult male bird

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("cock" is a kind of...):

bird (warm-blooded egg-laying vertebrates characterized by feathers and forelimbs modified as wings)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "cock"):

fighting cock; gamecock (a cock bred and trained for fighting)

• COCK (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they cock    ... he / she / it cocks   
Past simple: cocked   
Past participle: cocked   
-ing form: cocking   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Tilt or slant to one side

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Context example:

cock one's head

Hypernyms (to "cock" is one way to...):

cant; cant over; pitch; slant; tilt (heel over)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sense 2

Meaning:

Set the trigger of a firearm back for firing

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Hypernyms (to "cock" is one way to...):

lay; place; pose; position; put; set (put into a certain place or abstract location)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

cock (the part of a gunlock that strikes the percussion cap when the trigger is pulled)

Sense 3

Meaning:

To walk with a lofty proud gait, often in an attempt to impress others

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Synonyms:

cock; prance; ruffle; sashay; strut; swagger; tittup

Context example:

He struts around like a rooster in a hen house

Hypernyms (to "cock" is one way to...):

walk (use one's feet to advance; advance by steps)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s PP

 Context examples 

When the first cock crowed, the manikin carried her back to the royal palace, and laid her in her bed.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

Furtively, instinctively, I slunk back behind the table and drew and cocked my revolver.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

At such times she cocked both triggers of the gun, prepared to meet him with leaden death if he should burst loose, herself trembling and palpitating and dizzy from the tension and shock.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

The Karelian Bear Dog has small ears that are cocked and point outward slightly.

(Karelian Bear Dog, NCI Thesaurus)

At his remark I drew the weapon out and laid it cocked upon the table.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

They lives rough, and they risk swinging, but they eat and drink like fighting-cocks, and when a cruise is done, why, it's hundreds of pounds instead of hundreds of farthings in their pockets.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

The sky was overcast, and somewhere far off an early cock crew.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

I placed my revolver, cocked, upon the top of the wooden case behind which I crouched.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It had a cock near the bottom to let out the water, when it began to grow stale; and two servants could easily fill it in half an hour.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

Is it not a by-word that a man may ride all day in that unhappy land without seeing thatch upon roof or hearing the crow of cock?

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)