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ballocks

[bol-uhks] / ˈbɒl əks /


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The wealthier ones — businessmen, doctors — own gamecocks and hire staff to look after them.

From New York Times • Nov. 9, 2019

In addition to the gamecocks, investigators captured dogs, a goat, horses and a cow.

From Los Angeles Times • May 16, 2017

"My father raised gamecocks and he used Stroud's book when they got sick."

From Reuters • Mar. 2, 2014

He said making the breeding of gamecocks illegal would not stop the clandestine events.

From New York Times • Dec. 25, 2010

The wolf-eyed Sacs, the stately Winnebagoes, the Chippewas, and Malhominis,—they sat like gamecocks, quiet, but alert for a ruffle of one another's plumage.

From Montlivet by Smith, Alice Prescott




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