Examples of 'cock-up' in a sentence
Meaning of "cock-up"
Cock-up is a British slang term for a mess or a mistake, often used informally to describe a situation gone wrong
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- A mistake.
- A superior letter. A lower-case letter placed above the baseline and made smaller than ordinary script; traditionally used in abbreviations.
- A roll or twist of hair worn at the nape of the neck; a bun.
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We will raise red flags because of this cock-up.
I thought it was a cock-up at the factory.
I would like to tell you that such a cock-up.
So either there was a massive cock-up with the exchange rate or.
For my money it was just an ordinary cock-up.
Some cock-up with the booking so they have put me up top.
It seems there was a jolly old cock-up frog side.
I think there was a cock-up at the hospital when she was born.
Congratulations guys on your unprecedented cock-up.
Considering that cock-up you made with that bed of pansies last week.
This is an absolutely disgraceful cock-up.
The first question was about that cock-up over the shortage of prison officers.
The whole bloody thing was almost a total cock-up.
Be the biggest cock-up since Burgess and MacIean.
For the fact that this is a complete historical cock-up.
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We have had a cock-up here and Dave is dead.
A perfect example of a bureaucratic cock-up.
I needed to hang this Travis cock-up on someone, and Harris is here to clean house.
The current student funding system is a product of government cock-up.
One thing seems bound to happen, a right royal cock-up of stupendous proportions.
I just wanted to apologize for the fact that this is a complete historical cock-up.
Let us hope he has not heard about the cock-up on the telegraph pole.
I was in a relationship in London and it all became a bit of a cock-up.
There is been a cock-up at work and I need to speak to someone.
Maybe even erase some of the embarrassment of the Iranian cock-up.
Especially with an almighty cock-up at Camden Lock fresh in the memory.
The Haldane business was clearly some sort of massive cock-up.
Apparently there was a cock-up in inviting Professor Sachs to the exhumation.
Do that and I might overlook this gigantic flaming cock-up.
There was some communications cock-up about picking up your Miss Vale.
I'd already proved that with a spectacular cock-up.
You have a call waiting . There is been a cock-up at work and I need to speak to someone.
Some cock-up over computer files.
I knew I was in the shit ever since that cock-up at the hospital.
Be the biggest cock-up since Burgess and Maclean.
Just to fill you in - there is been a gigantic administrative cock-up.
One more cock-up and we say goodbye.
I heard about the royal cock-up.
Or was it just a massive cock-up quite well disguised?
Your cock-up entirely eclipses mine.
It was a monumental bloody cock-up of global proportions!
It was just another debacle, another cock-up.
Yet another cock-up by the agents.
And it all became a bit of a cock-up.
What a cock-up that turned out to be.
Some massive judicial cock-up.
About some cock-up somebody made.
Lads, let us get this crime stats cock-up sorted.
That is the cock-up theory, not the conspiracy theory.
There is been some sort of cock-up.
