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cocker
1[ kok-er ]
cocker
2[ kok-er ]
noun
- a person who promotes or patronizes cockfights.
cocker
3[ kok-er ]
verb (used with object)
- to pamper:
to cocker a child.
Cocker
1/ ˈkɒkə /
noun
- according to Cockerreliable or reliably; correct or correctly
cocker
2/ ˈkɒkə /
noun
- a devotee of cockfighting
- short for cocker spaniel
cocker
3/ ˈkɒkə /
verb
- rare.tr to pamper or spoil by indulgence
noun
- informal.a mate (esp in the phrase old cocker )
Word History and Origins
Origin of cocker1
Origin of cocker2
Origin of cocker3
Word History and Origins
Origin of cocker1
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Example Sentences
But Cocker proved to be a survivor, bringing his passionate persona to concert halls around the world decade after decade.
How fitting that Joe Cocker would get a little help from his friend Billy Joel.
Cocker, for his part, worked briefly as an apprentice gasfitter but decided to take the plunge into the world of commercial music.
When Cocker took on board the black American ethos, he turned it into something completely different.
But, strange to say, Cocker never got inducted in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
Although Aubrey Herbert is excessively unorthodox he quite sees that confabs with enemies must be carried out according to Cocker.
I know a fool of a dog who pretends that he is a Cocker Spaniel, and is convinced that the world revolves round him wonderingly.
Cocker spaniel Stein was never out of reach, or sight, and gave me the little attention I wanted.
And then the wisdom of the West came to him, as epitomized by Cocker along the lines laid down by Solomon.
But he had a good-looking eye; he had good sound feet; good bone, though his tail was hardly up to Cocker.
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