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  • noun Plural form of cockup.

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Examples

  • Bureaucratic cockups happen, but the real scandal is that he was invited in the first place.

    An Invitation to Islamic Radicalism 2011

  • The reality is as Panetta states it: there are a few companies that can do private security, and Blackwater/Xe consistently underbids the rest, and heavens knows that we are miserable with THE DEFICITZ now, and if the difference between a bunch of drunk murdering Blackwater cockups and the next company of slightly fewer reprobates is $26 million, then we dance with the drunken, murdering cock-ups.

    TV SoundOff: Sunday Talking Heads 2010

  • Is people on the internets reporting minor shenanigans at polling places such as overzealous supporters, campaign material where it shouldn't be, minor ballot or voting machine cockups, and transmuting those things into an elaborate plot by one candidate or the other to "steal" the election.

    Eschaton 2008

  • We're still too busy dealing with his other cockups. logdon

    Tony Blair: The Next Labour Prime Minister? 2010

  • Let the police break into houses and have raids, statiscally these number in the low 0.001% of cockups; report the good things and then check & balance the bad.

    A Few Good Men (part II) Well, well well… « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2006

  • His failure to listen and act, then also fail to shitcan him when the absolutely predictable chain of cockups occurred over Mandelson, Deripaska, the Rothschilds et al. (in whatever sequence they occurred) indicates that Call-me-Dave would also fail the Psychometric Test for the post to which he aspires.

    On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008

  • The President has been taking the heat for the cockups perpetrated by the now departed FEMA director, Mike Brown, the Arabian stallion guy.

    Nicholas von Hoffman: Self-Investigation 2008

  • His Tory opposition is not only weak but manages on a regular basis, through its own cockups and disarray, to remind the electorate of its worst failings in the years before it was voted out of power in 1997.

    Why The Dome Was A Dud 2008

  • NuLab may be dismal at running the country, however, but they are world class as dodging responsibility for their cockups, often by making things so complicated that journalists and their public lose interest, so no doubt they will pin the blame on everyone but themselves as usual.

    Brown's Chickens Come Home to Roost 2007

  • After six years of cockups they got caught whacking over our country.

    Think Progress » National Review Editor: Iraq May Be Turning Into Bush’s Vietnam 2006

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