GAMECOCK

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does gamecock mean? 

• GAMECOCK (noun)
  The noun GAMECOCK has 2 senses:

1. a cock bred and trained for fighting

2. someone who is a very fierce fighter

  Familiarity information: GAMECOCK used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GAMECOCK (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A cock bred and trained for fighting

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

fighting cock; gamecock

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

cock (adult male bird)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Someone who is a very fierce fighter

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

gamecock; hell-kite; hell-rooster

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

battler; belligerent; combatant; fighter; scrapper (someone who fights (or is fighting))

 Context examples 

We have been privileged, he cried, strutting about like a gamecock, to be present at one of the typical decisive battles of history—the battles which have determined the fate of the world.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)