<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>a male chicken; rooster.</li><li>the male of any bird, especially a gallinaceous bird.</li><li>a hand-operated valve or faucet, especially one opened or closed by rotating a cylindrical or tapered plug having part of the passage pierced through it from side to side.</li><li>(in a firearm) the part of the lock that, by its fall or action, causes the discharge; hammer.</li><li>the position into which the cock, or hammer, is brought by being drawn partly or completely back, preparatory to firing.</li><li>Slang: penis.</li><li>sexual relations with a man.</li><li>a weathercock.</li><li>a leader; chief person.</li><li>Chiefly British Informal: pal; chum.</li><li>British Slang: nonsense.</li><li>Horology: a bracketlike plate holding bearings, supported at one end only.</li><li>Archaic: the time of the crowing of the cock; early in the morning; cockcrow.</li></ul><p><strong>Verb</strong></p><ul><li>(used with object) to pull back and set the cock, or hammer, of (a firearm) preparatory to firing.</li><li>to draw back in preparation for throwing or hitting: He cocked his bat and waited for the pitch.</li><li>to set (a camera shutter or other mechanism) for tripping.</li><li>(used without object) to cock the firing mechanism of a firearm.</li></ul><p><strong>End of Response</strong></p>