Usually means: Mistake due to incompetence or carelessness.
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  1. cockup: Collins English Dictionary
  2. cockup: Vocabulary.com
  3. cockup: Wordnik
  4. cockup: Wiktionary
  5. cockup: Infoplease Dictionary
  6. Cockup, cockup: Dictionary.com
  7. Cockup: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  8. cockup: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  9. cockup: Rhymezone
  10. Cockup: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  11. cockup: FreeDictionary.org
  12. cockup: Mnemonic Dictionary
  13. cockup: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. cockup: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (cockup)

noun:  (archaic) A hat or cap worn turned up in front.
noun:  A large edible fish of India (Lates calcarifer).
noun:  Alternative form of cock-up [(Commonwealth, mildly vulgar slang) A mistake.]

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