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cockatoos

cockatoos is the plural of cockatoo.

Meaning of cockatoo

Noun

cockatoo (plural cockatoos)

  1. A bird of the family Cacatuidae with a curved beak and a zygodactyl foot.
    • We saw some cockatoos in the aviary.
  2. (obsolete, slang) A lookout posted during a two-up game, when gambling was illegal.

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Phrases with cockatoos

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Questions about cockatoos

What is cockatoos the plural of?
Cockatoos is the plural of cockatoo.

Words near cockatoos in the dictionary

  1. cockatoo farmer
  2. cockatoo farmers
  3. cockatoo grass
  4. cockatoo parrot
  5. cockatoo parrots
  6. cockatoos
  7. cockatouche
  8. cockatouches
  9. cockatrice
  10. cockatrices
  11. cockatush

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cockatoos (page history and authors); cockatoo (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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