Usually means: Mistake due to careless error.
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We found 24 dictionaries that define the word cock up:

General (18 matching dictionaries)
  1. cock-up: Merriam-Webster
  2. cock-up: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. cock-up: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. cock up: Vocabulary.com
  5. cock-up: Wordnik
  6. cock-up: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. cock-up, cock up: Wiktionary
  8. cock-up: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. cock-up, cock up: Dictionary.com
  10. Cock-up: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. cock up: Rhymezone
  12. cock up: FreeDictionary.org
  13. cock up: Mnemonic Dictionary
  14. cock-up, cock up: TheFreeDictionary.com
  15. Cock-up: World Wide Words
  16. cock up: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. cock up: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. cock up: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. cock up: Idioms

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. cock up: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. cock-up: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  3. cock up: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (cock up)

verb:  (ambitransitive, chiefly UK, Commonwealth, Ireland, slang, mildly vulgar) To ruin (something) unintentionally; to fuck up, mess up, or screw up.

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