Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A rooster trained for cockfighting.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A cock bred from a fighting stock or strain; a cock bred and trained for fighting purposes.
Wiktionary
- n. A fighting cock: a rooster used in cockfighting.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The male game fowl.
WordNet 3.0
- n. someone who is a very fierce fighter
- n. a cock bred and trained for fighting
Examples
“The law says a gamecock is not an animal but is a fowl.”
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“I called gamecock immediately after I heard that Sanford had actually been in Argentina, and he updated his diary to comport with this new information.”
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““To live like a gamecock, that is my target,” he said in a wistful voice.”
Cold Mountain
“To live like a gamecock, that is my target, " he said in a wistful voice.”
Cold Mountain
“There was a kind of gamecock called Cornish Game that was fairly manshaped.”
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Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘gamecock’.
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Cocks, dicks, etc.
Also see End in -ock (this list syntax doesn't seem to work).
cockle, cockleshell, cock, spatchcock, cockeye, cockeyed, cocklemaney, cockerel, cockcrow, kok, cock-a-bondy, cock-and-bull and 89 more...
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End in -ock
Inspired by fbharjo (see spitchcock).
spitchcock, hillock, willock, peacock, pajock, penock, yapock, sycock, bittock, bawcock, burrock, cammock and 168 more...
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Violence
sucker punch, punch, bunch of fives, haymaker, bare-knuckle, punch-drunk, brawler, scrapper, hellkite, street fighter, gamecock, powerhouse and 30 more...
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Awesome Names for Your Heavy Metal Band
onslaught, gamecock, chthonic, hoarfrost, kernicterus, keelhaul, simulacrum, clavicle, interregnum, catafalque, gravamen, blunderbuss and 47 more...
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