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cold-cocked

cold-cocked is the simple past and past participle of cold-cock.

Meaning of cold-cock

Verb

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

  1. (slang, transitive) To hit someone with a cold cock.
  2. (slang, transitive) To hit someone with a club, bottle, or any object that gives additional force to the blow.
  3. (slang, transitive) To knock someone unconscious.
    • "I can't believe it. You cold-cocked the big stud." "He blindsided and cold-cocked him," Greer said proudly.1992, Ken Kesey, Sailor Song, page 153

Questions about cold-cocked

What is cold-cocked the simple past and past participle of?
Cold-cocked is the simple past and past participle of cold-cock.

Words near cold-cocked in the dictionary

  1. cold-cathode light
  2. cold-cathode lights
  3. cold-cathode tube
  4. cold-cathode tubes
  5. cold-cock
  6. cold-cocked
  7. cold-cocking
  8. cold-cocks
  9. cold-conk
  10. cold-conked
  11. cold-conking

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cold-cocked (page history and authors); cold-cock (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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