cocked


see go off half-cocked; knock into a cocked hat.

Words Nearby cocked

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How to use cocked in a sentence

  • Sangree and I, with cocked guns, watched the shore lines, and all within easy touch and speaking distance.

    Three More John Silence Stories | Algernon Blackwood
  • A field-marshal has his uniform, a bishop his silk apron, a counsellor his silk gown, a beadle his cocked hat.

  • Nothing like them ever heard beforeall tuned in the same key, as you musical fellows would say, and Perkins cocked his eye.

    The Fifth String   | John Philip Sousa
  • He frowns and looks enviously at the sword and cocked hat which the General has left on a chair.

  • Cash cocked an eye at the two as he went by, threw the wood down on his side of the hearth, and began to replenish the fire.

    Cabin Fever | B. M. Bower