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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A rooster trained for cockfighting.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A cock bred from a fighting stock or strain; a cock bred and trained for fighting purposes.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Zoöl.) The male game fowl.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A fighting cock: a rooster used in cockfighting.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun someone who is a very fierce fighter
  • noun a cock bred and trained for fighting

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Examples

  • The law says a gamecock is not an animal but is a fowl.

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  • I called gamecock immediately after I heard that Sanford had actually been in Argentina, and he updated his diary to comport with this new information.

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  • “To live like a gamecock, that is my target,” he said in a wistful voice.

    Cold Mountain Frazier, Charles, 1950- Cold Mountain 2003

  • "To live like a gamecock, that is my target, " he said in a wistful voice.

    Cold Mountain Frazier, Charles, 1950- Cold Mountain 1997

  • There was a kind of gamecock called Cornish Game that was fairly manshaped.

    Operation: Outer Space Murray Leinster 1935

  • Originally published by Mike "gamecock" DeVine as Charlotte Law and Civil Rights Examiner for What is the big hurry in "declaring" the winner of North Carolina's electoral votes in the presidential election?

    Gamecock - A Townhall.com user blog 2009

  • Originally published by Mike "gamecock" DeVine as Charlotte Law and Civil Rights Examiner for What is the big hurry in "declaring" the winner of North Carolina's electoral votes in the presidential election?

    Gamecock - A Townhall.com user blog 2009

  • Originally published by Mike "gamecock" DeVine as Charlotte Law and Civil Rights Examiner for What is the big hurry in "declaring" the winner of North Carolina's electoral votes in the presidential election?

    Gamecock - A Townhall.com user blog 2009

  • Originally published by Mike "gamecock" DeVine as Charlotte Law and Civil Rights Examiner for What is the big hurry in "declaring" the winner of North Carolina's electoral votes in the presidential election?

    Gamecock - A Townhall.com user blog 2009

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