How do you use Cocked in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, plus the exact meaning.
Cocked meaning
- Drunk.
- Having a specified form of penis or a specific number of penises.
- Of a firearm or crossbow; to have the cock lifted or prepared to be fired.
Using Cocked
- The main meaning on this page is: Drunk. | Having a specified form of penis or a specific number of penises. | Of a firearm or crossbow; to have the cock lifted or prepared to be fired.
- In the example corpus, cocked often appears in combinations such as: and cocked, cocked it, cocked the.
Context around Cocked
- Average sentence length in these examples: 22.8 words
- Position in the sentence: 2 start, 9 middle, 9 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Cocked
- In this selection, "cocked" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 22.8 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, head, hip, half, hip, pistol and makarov stand out and add context to how "cocked" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include air and cocked one hip and anything half cocked he felt. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "cocked" sits close to words such as abating, abductors and abstaining, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with cocked
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Eli asked and cocked his head toward Poppa. (8 words)
Salma stood with one leg bent and that hip cocked a bit. (12 words)
She also cocked her hip and left her hands at her sides. (12 words)
A soldier wearing a camouflage uniform stands in the large central room of a church, his head cocked up toward the ceiling as he looks at the damage done to it during years of warfare in Nagorno-Karabakh. (38 words)
In Russia, when someone kneels down, more often than not, they are kneeling beside a hole in the ground and there is a military officer behind them with a loaded and cocked Makarov pistol. (34 words)
Because Gleeson knew McDonagh wasn’t satisfied with the draft either and that he didn’t want to reunite with the acting pair on anything “half-cocked,” he felt comfortable giving honest feedback. (33 words)
Example sentences (20)
According to the prosecutor, Ciarla put the gun behind the victim’s head and cocked the gun when he tried to walk away.
Because Gleeson knew McDonagh wasn’t satisfied with the draft either and that he didn’t want to reunite with the acting pair on anything “half-cocked,” he felt comfortable giving honest feedback.
He can then be seen motionless at the bottom of the stairs with his head cocked to the side.
Later, while sitting on the couch, my dog jumped up from behind me and came around to look at me with her head cocked to the side.
Soucy joined Raw behind the fence and when the moose cocked its head downward, Soucy was able to take hold of the decorations and pull them off.
Tucked behind a bench outside of Bogart’s Donut Co. is Edwards soaring toward the rim with the ball cocked back in his left hand.
A soldier wearing a camouflage uniform stands in the large central room of a church, his head cocked up toward the ceiling as he looks at the damage done to it during years of warfare in Nagorno-Karabakh.
The Cowboys haven’t been the same since getting cold-cocked by the Saints — losing four of six games to fall to 3-5.
A large Louis Vuitton bag was looped around her right forearm, and she placed her hand on her cocked hip.
Ana had her head slightly cocked to one side and gazed at the camera with her enormous chocolate brown eyes, which were emphasized by exceptionally long lashes.
But here he was (as one friend unkindly but accurately put it), a Tommy Emmanuel with short hair, hand cocked on hip, "singing".
Doing sets is just the method — the cocked pistol to a dangerously tactical mind if you will.
Eli asked and cocked his head toward Poppa.
In a striker-fired pistol, a spring-loaded firing pin is partially cocked by the movement of the slide, with the rest of the cocking taking place when the trigger is pulled.
In Russia, when someone kneels down, more often than not, they are kneeling beside a hole in the ground and there is a military officer behind them with a loaded and cocked Makarov pistol.
It also featured a firing pin lock that prevented the gun from being fired even if dropped while cocked.
Salma stood with one leg bent and that hip cocked a bit.
She also cocked her hip and left her hands at her sides.
She kept her hands in the air and cocked one hip slightly in a way that accentuated her hourglass figure.
She stood with on hip cocked to the side, flaunting her hourglass shape and curvy hips.
Common combinations with cocked
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- and cocked 6×
- cocked it 4×
- cocked the 4×
- cocked to 4×
- cocked hat 4×
- manually cocked 4×
- head cocked 3×
- cocked by 3×
- hand cocked 2×
- cocked his 2×