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  • adjective Alternative form of cock-a-hoop.

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Examples

  • Primark is cockahoop, gleefully spinning the trust's finding that a key sequence featuring child labourers in Bangalore was "more likely than not … not authentic" as evidence the whole report was wrong – which plainly it was not.

    The BBC Trust's finding on Primark is damaging for Panorama 2011

  • Primark is cockahoop, gleefully spinning the trust's finding that a key sequence featuring child labourers in Bangalore was "more likely than not … not authentic" as evidence the whole report was wrong – which plainly it was not.

    The BBC Trust's finding on Primark is damaging for Panorama 2011

  • Tottenham, cockahoop three nights earlier after brushing aside Young Boys of Berne to reach the group stage of the Champions League, now went broody as they failed to find the craft and imagination to outwit a Wigan defence that looked as if it produced clean sheets as regularly as a Chinese laundry.

    Harry Redknapp has no sympathy for Tottenham hangover 2010

  • Tottenham, cockahoop three nights earlier after brushing aside Young Boys of Berne to reach the group stage of the Champions League, now went broody as they failed to find the craft and imagination to outwit a Wigan defence that looked as if it produced clean sheets as regularly as a Chinese laundry.

    Harry Redknapp refuses to blame Champions League hangover for defeat David Lacey at White Hart Lane 2010

  • TV Boing Boing is cockahoop over a new televisual invention:On Breakfast Television we get a very different Bob Hunter.

    Archive 2003-08-24 2003

  • He'd come round that there bend a-whistling, not sort o 'cockahoop, like some does, but just a cheery sort o' 'Here I am again;' and he'd always stop most anywhere, if so be as you held up your hand.

    Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, July 4, 1917 Various

  • And she with her nose cockahoop after she married him because a cousin of his old fellow's was pewopener to the pope.

    Ulysses James Joyce 1911

  • At first Caroline will be awfully cockahoop at getting her own way.

    Happy Pollyooly The Rich Little Poor Girl Edgar Jepson 1900

  • She'd only think it was a trap; or she'd think I'd caved in, and be so cockahoop we should never get any forrader.

    Happy Pollyooly The Rich Little Poor Girl Edgar Jepson 1900

  • It is practically certain that my sire, the Mooktear, will cockahoop with paternal pride on hearing by telegram of my moral victory, and celebrate same with fireworks and festivities, besides sending ample remittances for all costs out of pocket, &c.

    Baboo Jabberjee, B.A. F. Anstey 1895

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