- 1cock something to raise a part of your body so that it is vertical or at an angle The dog cocked its leg by every tree on our route (= in order to urinate). He cocked an inquisitive eyebrow at her. She cocked her head to one side and looked at me. The dog stood listening, its ears cocked.
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- 2cock a gun/pistol/rifle to raise the hammer on a gun so that it is ready to fire see half-cocked Idioms
cock
verbNAmE//kɑk//
Verb Forms present simple I / you / we / they cock he / she / it cocks
past simple cocked
-ing form cocking
to look at or listen to someone or something carefully and with a lot of attention
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