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cocked up

cocked up is the simple past and past participle of cock up.

Meaning of cock up

Verb

cock up (third-person singular simple present cocks up, present participle cocking up, simple past and past participle cocked up)

  1. (Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, ambitransitive, mildly, slang) To ruin (something) unintentionally; to fuck up, mess up, or screw up.
    • It was cocking her up with gimcrack notions about ladies till she'd be ashamed to look at her own hands after she had done a day's work with them.1876 May – 1877 July, Anthony Trollope, “‘Wonderful Bird!’”, in The American Senator […], volume I, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1877, →OCLC, page 282

Questions about cocked up

What is cocked up the simple past and past participle of?
Cocked up is the simple past and past participle of cock up.

Words near cocked up in the dictionary

  1. cocked hats
  2. cocked it over
  3. cocked off
  4. cocked on
  5. cocked one's toes
  6. cocked up
  7. cocked-up
  8. Cockell
  9. cockentrice
  10. cockentrices
  11. Cockenzie

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