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- noun Plural form of
cock-up .
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Examples
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That is the gift we all, of the lower ranks have, that recognises vermin when we see them, smell bulls**t when confronted with it and look at the job and see only cock-ups.
I’m Here For An Argument. No You’re Not! Yes I am! « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2010
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There might be problems with the fileshare site or your ability to access it, or with servers and attachment sizes, or with wastrel writers making cock-ups.
Gigging for Groats Hal Duncan 2010
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In Spain, Italy and Germany, they manage quite well shuttling between clubs and international camps, without this terror, this anxiety, but then no country has lumbered itself with England's recent history of cock-ups, near misses, penalty shoot-out meltdowns and crushing disappointments.
Fabio Capello has failed to help England's elite beat their demons | Paul Hayward 2011
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The list of our cock-ups is enormous as you can scarcely fail to be aware.
The west should cheer, not fear, this cry for freedom in Egypt | Andrew Rawnsley 2011
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There might be problems with the fileshare site or your ability to access it, or with servers and attachment sizes, or with wastrel writers making cock-ups.
Archive 2010-02-01 Hal Duncan 2010
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It did not prevent a century of spectacular military and naval cock-ups, plus false economies, which culminated in the disaster of the first world war.
David Cameron trades hardware for software Michael White 2010
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These are more than cock-ups; they are fundamental and avoidable mistakes that could cost England.
Fabio Capello's cast of extras shows regime has lost the plot 2011
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A dash for cash to keep the shareholders happy, particularly after the debacle of the competition cock-ups of the mid-2000s, had littered the show with too many money-making offers.
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As Ashdown outlines, this wasn't a mission without cock-ups.
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After what former BBC Trust chairman Sir Michael Lyons called some "memorable cock-ups", such as a trailer for a BBC1 documentary about the Queen being edited to wrongly imply she had walked out of a photo shoot and the Ross-Brand broadcast on Radio 2 – which led to the resignation the respective network controllers, Peter Fincham and Lesley Douglas – the committee said it understood why the corporation had tightened up its compliance procedures.
Ofcom should have final say over BBC complaints, says Lords report 2011
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