cock one's toes

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cock one's toes (third-person singular simple present cocks one's toes, present participle cocking one's toes, simple past and past participle cocked one's toes)

  1. (UK, Ireland, idiomatic, slang) To die.
    Synonym: (Australia) turn up one's toes
    • 1951, The Irish Monthly, volume 79, page 191:
      I'll be well pickled by the time I'm ready to cock my toes!
    • 1955, Ireland. Oireachtas. Dáil, Díosbóireachtaí Párlaiminte: Tuairisc Oifigiúil, volume 151, page 123:
      Captain Giles: Fianna Fáil would like to see you cock your toes but I hope they will not be able.

References[edit]

  • John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary
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