cock

Example Sentences

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No one gets it wholly right, but you survey the field of your life and cock your head.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 26, 2025

Thomas’ conversational exchange about “trying to play these boys the new cock robin” – a cock robin reportedly being old English slang for “someone who’s easily persuaded to follow the will of another.”

From Salon • May 2, 2025

“If you’re trying to cock the gun and you lose your grasp on it, the hammer falls — that safety notch captures it,” Haag said.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 27, 2024

Mercedes have moved their cock pit further back in their cars, as per requested by Lewis Hamilton.

From BBC • Feb. 18, 2024

It was a black arrow with yellow bands round it, like a wasp, and its cock feather was yellow.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White