Usually means: Male bird, especially a rooster.
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General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. cock: Merriam-Webster
  2. cock, cock, cock: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. cock, cock: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. cock: Collins English Dictionary
  5. cock: Vocabulary.com
  6. cock: Wordnik
  7. cock: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. cock: Wiktionary
  9. cock: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. cock: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. cock: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Cock, cock: Dictionary.com
  13. cock (n1.), cock (n2.), cock (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. cock: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Cock (bird), Cock (play), Cock (surname), Cock, .co.ck: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Cock: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. cock: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. cock: Rhymezone
  19. cock: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. cock: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Cock: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  22. cock: FreeDictionary.org
  23. cock: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. -cock, cock: TheFreeDictionary.com
  25. cock: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  26. cock: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Cock (bird), Cock (chicken), -cock, cock: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Cock (bird), Cock (chicken), cock: Medical dictionary
  2. -cock: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  2. -cock, cock: Idioms

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Cock: Smith's Bible Dictionary

Slang (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. cock, cock, cock, cock, cock, cock, cock, cock, cock, cock, cock, Cock: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. cock: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  3. Totally Unofficial Rap (No longer online)
  4. The Cock: Urban Dictionary

Sports (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)
  2. cock: Golfer's Dictionary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Sandahl, Middle English Sea Terms (No longer online)

(Note: See cocked as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (cock)

noun:  A male bird, especially:
noun:  A rooster: a male gallinaceous bird, especially a male domestic chicken (Gallus gallus domesticus).
noun:  A cock pigeon.
noun:  A valve or tap for controlling flow in plumbing.
noun:  The hammer of a firearm trigger mechanism.
noun:  (colloquial, vulgar) A penis.
noun:  (curling) The circle at the end of the rink.
noun:  The state of being cocked; an upward turn, tilt or angle.
noun:  (UK, Commonwealth, Ireland, derogatory, slang) A stupid, obnoxious or contemptible person.
noun:  (UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, derogatory, slang, uncountable) Nonsense; rubbish; a fraud.
noun:  (slang, UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, especially as term of address) A man; a fellow.
noun:  A boastful tilt of one's head or hat.
noun:  (informal) Shuttlecock.
noun:  A vane in the shape of a cock; a weathercock.
noun:  (dated, often humorous) A chief person; a leader or master.
noun:  (obsolete) A leading thing.
noun:  The crow of a cock, especially the first crow in the morning; cockcrow.
noun:  A male fish, especially a salmon or trout.
noun:  The style or gnomon of a sundial.
noun:  The indicator of a balance.
noun:  The bridge piece that affords a bearing for the pivot of a balance in a clock or watch.
verb:  (ambitransitive) To lift the cock of a firearm or crossbow; to prepare (a gun or crossbow) to be fired.
verb:  (intransitive) To be prepared to be triggered by having the cock lifted.
verb:  (transitive) To erect; to turn up.
verb:  (British, Ireland, transitive, slang) To copulate with; (by extension, as with fuck) to mess up, to damage, to destroy.
verb:  (transitive) To turn or twist something upwards or to one side; to lift or tilt (e.g. headwear) boastfully.
verb:  (intransitive, dated) To turn (the eye) obliquely and partially close its lid, as an expression of derision or insinuation.
verb:  (intransitive, dated) To strut; to swagger; to look big, pert, or menacing.
verb:  (transitive, obsolete) To make a nestle-cock of, to pamper or spoil (a child).
noun:  (Southern US, where it is now rare and dated; and African-American Vernacular, where it is still sometimes used) Vulva, vagina.
noun:  Hay-cock, a small conical pile of hay.
verb:  (transitive) To form into piles.
noun:  (obsolete) A corruption of the word God, used in oaths.
noun:  A surname.
noun:  Abbreviation of cock-boat, a type of small boat.

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