to cock off
- phrasal verb
- Offensive
:
mandar a alguien a la mierda
- Just cock off and leave me alone!
Examples
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After being interrupted repeatedly, she finally told her colleagues to cock off.
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He shouted at the reporter to cock off when asked about the scandal.
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If you don't like my ideas, you can just cock off.
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He told her to cock off during the argument.
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After being interrupted repeatedly, she finally told her colleagues to cock off.
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He shouted at the reporter to cock off when asked about the scandal.
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If you don't like my ideas, you can just cock off.
Synonyms
104
9.9
Leave or tell someone to leave in a rude way
49
9.9
To tell someone rudely that you do not care about their opinion or order
37
9.9
A rude way to tell someone to go away and show strong anger
12
9.9
Tell someone to go away immediately in a rude way
12
8.4
To tell someone to go away right away in a rude or angry way
4
8.9
Tell someone to go away and leave you alone
3
9.5
To tell someone rudely to go away or to stop working and relax
3
9.9
Tell someone to go away in a rude way
2
8.7
Reject someone or something rudely and tell them to go away
1
5.4
Make a person or animal go away with words and gestures
1
9.9
To tell someone rudely to go away and leave you alone
Rudely say to someone that you want them to go away
A rude way to tell someone to go away without the real swear word
Antonyms
How Rude
- Offensive
104
9.9
- Offensive
- Offensive
1
9.9
- Informal
4
7.9
- Informal
5
6.4
Surface Forms
Morphology
cock + off
This is a vulgar, idiomatic imperative whose meaning ‘tell someone to go away’ cannot be derived from the literal constituents 'cock' (male genital) and 'off'. Although English has crude patterns like 'X off' (e.g. 'fuck off'), that is a slang-specific, idiomatic use rather than a compositional meaning, so a B1 learner who only knows the parts would not reliably infer the intended sense.
Etymology
Cock off may come from a stronger swear like 'fuck off', where people replaced the f-word with 'cock' to make it sound different but keep the same rude meaning. That's why cock off is a rude way to tell someone 'go away' or 'stop bothering you'.