Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In printing, having the top much above the top line of the other letters of the text: applied to a large type used for the initial letter of the first word of a volume, part, book, or chapter.
- noun A serranoid fish, Lates calcarifer, of the seas, back-waters, and mouths of rivers of India and neighboring countries.
- noun An old form of hat with the brim much turned up in front.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) A large, highly esteemed, edible fish of India (
Lates calcarifer ); -- also calledbegti .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Alternative spelling of
cock-up . - noun archaic A
hat orcap worn turned up in front. - noun A large
edible fish ofIndia (Lates calcarifer); the begti.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb raise
- noun something badly botched or muddled
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Examples
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We remember Katrina because there was an obvious cockup on the part of the government.
Matthew Yglesias » Setting the Record Straight on Textbooks 2009
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I expect a lot of talk about how things are well in hand, followed in a couple of years by another massive cockup. scott says:
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Israel's interior ministry insisted the incident was a "misunderstanding" and said the 81-year-old professor had not been blacklisted, while a senior government source described the situation as "a total cockup."
Richard Hall: Noam Chomsky on the current (and enduring) crisis in the Middle East 2010
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Israel's interior ministry insisted the incident was a "misunderstanding" and said the 81-year-old professor had not been blacklisted, while a senior government source described the situation as "a total cockup."
Richard Hall: Noam Chomsky on the current (and enduring) crisis in the Middle East 2010
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To think that Clinton wants "votes to count" (votes for her) out of that unfair cockup is vile.
Report: Popular Vote Win For Hillary Is All But Impossible 2009
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Bill has made a cockup of this state and there is no way they can spin it otherwise.
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Then again, they still remembered Neville Chamberlain's cockup back then, and weren't interested in appeasing anyone else.
Obama reaching out to the Taliban. Ann Althouse 2009
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Paris 1954, four months after the cockup at Dien Bien Phu.
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It was last talked of at the end of the 60's and 70's, both periods preceded by Labour rule or cockup depending on the way you look at it.
Losing touch 2008
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It of course remains to be seen whether HORROR FILMS OF THE 1980s will be as big a cockup as its predecessor, but it's hard to feel hopeful.
Not again Arbogast 2007
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