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to cock up
01
to mess up something, often due to the lack of necessary ability or knowledge
Dialect
British
British
Informal
Grammatical Information
Composition
phrasal
Action verb
Regular
Separable
Particle
up
Base verb
cock
Present tense
cock up
3rd person singular
cocks up
Present participle
cocking up
Past simple
cocked up
Past participle
cocked up
02
(of an animal) to lift ears in an alert manner
