cock up - definition and meaning

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Definitions

Wiktionary

v. To ruin (something) unintentionally; to screw up, mess up or fuck up.

Examples

“How fitting that Archie should decide to cock up his toes in Arabella's bed.”

Tutoring Lady Jane

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- rear
- fault
- erect
- error
- mistake
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- two
- metacarpal
- basketry
- mandibular
- well-padded
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Words that contain this word in their definition
- cock
- cylinder-cock
- cock-feather
- cock-ups
- cockup
- cockade
- cockerel

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britishisms

A tip of my hat to the snarkiest of English dialects. Here here!

Ponce, snog, bloody, barmy, blasted, blooming, bleeding, knackered, poppycock, wanker, tosser, cracked and 52 more...
Charlie Foxtrot

Military and work slang

lash up, fubar, cock up, burn the ships, cluster fuck, petta, lustre fluck, wong

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sionnach screw up. The object of this verb is put between its two components (hence "to cock something up", not "to cock up something"). Oct 28, 2007