Usually means: Acting without full readiness, preparation.
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We found 13 dictionaries that define the word half cocked:

General (12 matching dictionaries)
  1. half-cocked: Merriam-Webster
  2. half-cocked, half-cocked: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. half-cocked, half-cocked: Collins English Dictionary
  4. half-cocked: Wordnik
  5. half-cocked: Wiktionary
  6. half-cocked: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  7. half-cocked: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  8. half-cocked: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. half-cocked, half cocked: Dictionary.com
  10. Half-Cocked (film), Half-cocked (movie): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. half-cocked: TheFreeDictionary.com
  12. half cocked: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. half-cocked, half cocked: Urban Dictionary


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