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cockthrowing

cockthrowing is the alternative form of cock throwing.

Meaning of cock throwing

Noun

cock throwing (countable and uncountable, plural cock throwings)

  1. (historical) A blood sport in which coksteles are thrown at an immobilised rooster until it is killed.

Forms of cockthrowing

pluralcockthrowings

Questions about cockthrowing

What is cockthrowing the alternative form of?
Cockthrowing is the alternative form of cock throwing.

Words near cockthrowing in the dictionary

  1. cockteased
  2. cockteaser
  3. cockteasers
  4. cockteases
  5. cockteasing
  6. cockthrowing
  7. cocktion
  8. cocktip
  9. cocktips
  10. cockup
  11. cockups

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cockthrowing (page history and authors); cock throwing (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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