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COCK UP
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Dictionary entry overview: What does cock up mean?
• COCK UP (verb)
The verb COCK UP has 1 sense:
1. raise
Familiarity information: COCK UP used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Raise
Classified under:
Verbs of walking, flying, swimming
Synonyms:
Context example:
The dog pricked up his ears
Hypernyms (to "cock up" is one way to...):
erect; rear (cause to rise up)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Context examples
He would be lying in camp, dozing lazily in the heat of the day, when suddenly his head would lift and his ears cock up, intent and listening, and he would spring to his feet and dash away, and on and on, for hours, through the forest aisles and across the open spaces where the niggerheads bunched.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
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