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cattled

cattled is the ellipsis of cattle trucked.

cattled is the simple past and past participle of cattle.

Meaning of cattle trucked

Adjective

cattle trucked (comparative more cattle trucked, superlative most cattle trucked)

  1. (Cockney, slang) Fucked (“irreparably or catastrophically broken”).
    • Suggests to me that the Deskjet/Laserjet/PCL drivers are cattle-trucked. No doubt the IBM ink jet doesn't use PCL...? Or is it something more serious?1994 January 11, Marcus W. Bainbridge, “Re: PagePlus DTP + Win-OS/2 + DeskJet = General Protection Fault in GDI.EXE”, in comp.os.os2.misc (Usenet)
    Synonyms:
    Donald Ducked
  2. (Cockney, slang) Fucked (“in trouble; in a hopeless situation”).
    • Its all very well until we get a suspension or an injury (god forbid!) and then we're cattle trucked. No disrespect to our stanbys but they are just not up to the job...whether that is due to lack of match practice or the fact that they are just not good enough will only be proved if they get a run...1999 July 27, BiffdaBoy, “Re: Neither am I”, in alt.sports.soccer.arsenal (Usenet)
    Synonyms:
    cattled

Meaning of cattle

Noun

cattle pl (normally plural, singular cattle)

  1. (plural, plural-normally) Domesticated animals of the species Bos taurus (cows, bulls, steers, oxen etc), and other hoofed mammals of the genus Bos.
    • Many cattle were suffering from a disease called BSE.
  2. (plural, plural-normally) Certain other livestock, such as sheep, pigs or goats. Also rarely applied to horses.
    • Mr. Jos had hired a pair of horses for his open carriage, with which cattle, and the smart London vehicle, he made a very tolerable figure in the drives about Brussels.1848, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 29, in Vanity Fair, page 246
  3. (derogatory, figuratively, plural, plural-normally) People who resemble domesticated bovine animals in behavior or destiny.
    • "Come, that will do," interrupted Joolby with an impatient growl; "talk, talk, talk—that's all it ever comes to with your kind of cattle. Do you still think that you are playing at charades, girl? […]"1934, Ernest Bramah, The Bravo of London
  4. (English, countable, obsolete, plural, plural-normally, sometimes) chattel
    • goods and cattle
  5. (plural, plural-normally, rare, uncountable) Used in restricted contexts to refer to the meat derived from cattle.
    • The temptation of a lone white man was too great for any gathering of myall-natives, and sheep-fat and cattle-steak seemed there for the spearing, so that a stockman always ran the risk of attack, especially if his shepherds interfered with the native women.a. 1964, Stephen Henry Roberts, The Squatting Age in Australia, 1835-1847, Melbourne University Press, published 1964, page 315

See all 6 meanings of cattle

Forms of cattled

comparativemore cattled
superlativemost cattled

Origin of cattled

From cattle + -ed.

Phrases with cattled

Questions about cattled

What is cattled the ellipsis of?
Cattled is the ellipsis of cattle trucked.

Words near cattled in the dictionary

  1. cattlebreeder
  2. cattlebreeders
  3. cattlebreeding
  4. cattlebuyer
  5. cattlebuyers
  6. cattled
  7. cattled up
  8. cattledom
  9. cattlegirl
  10. cattlegirls
  11. cattleguard

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cattled (page history and authors); cattle trucked (page history and authors); cattle (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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