cock up

1. 1.

   raise

   “The dog pricked up his ears”

   Synonymsprick upprick

   Broaderrear

Questions about cock up

What does cock up mean?

cock up means "raise".

What is another word for cock up?

Close synonyms include prick up, prick. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is cock up a common word?

cock up is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.