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In some senses, cock-up is marked as slang, vulgar, obsolete, UK. Watch for register when choosing this word.
cock-up
noun 3
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3(noun.)
ADJ
complete, real, total
make
The project manager made a terrible cock-up when he forgot to invite the client to the meeting.
PREP
~ over
There was quite a cock-up over the delivery date, so the package arrived three weeks late.
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noun
1
A mistake.
If the zodiac was already developed in 2000 BC, it must have been kept as a cult secret or in some non-Babylonian country; this would be a 1500-year conspiracy theory. More likely is the individual cockup theory, viz. the naivety of Eudoxus himself.
And I'm sorry for all the cock-ups, my cabinet are absolute crap. We'll have to do better next year.
2
A superior letter; a lower-case letter placed above the baseline and made smaller than ordinary script; traditionally used in abbreviations.
The first word of every section or chapter is generally put in small capitals, after a small neat cock-up letter.
3
A roll or twist of hair worn at the nape of the neck; a bun.
Cockernonie, a gathering up of the hair of women, after a fashion similar to that of the modern "chignon," and sometimes called a "cock-up." Mr. Kirkton, of Edinburgh, preaching against "cock-ups"—of which chignons were the representatives a quarter of a century ago—said: "I have been all this year preaching against the vanity of women, yet I see my own daughter in the kirk even now with as high a 'cock-up' as any one of you all."
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If the zodiac was already developed in 2000 BC, it must have been kept as a cult secret or in some non-Babylonian country; this would be a 1500-year conspiracy theory. More likely is the individual co
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And I'm sorry for all the cock-ups, my cabinet are absolute crap. We'll have to do better next year.
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In over a quarter of a century of writing this column, there has been no end of scandals, mishaps, errors and general cock-ups resulting from ministerial incompetence.
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What a cock-up!
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