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cock a snook

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Verb

cock a snook (third-person singular simple present cocks a snook, present participle cocking a snook, simple past and past participle cocked a snook)

  1. (UK, idiomatic, derogatory) To perform a snook, a gesture of disrespect.
  2. (figurative, by extension) To flout or show disrespect to.
    to cock a snook at authority

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