Definition of "cockup" []

• Alternative spelling of cock-up. (noun)
• A hat or cap worn turned up in front. (noun)
• A large edible fish of India (Lates calcarifer); the begti. (noun)

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• "I expect a lot of talk about how things are well in hand, followed in a couple of years by another massive cockup. scott says:"
• "We remember Katrina because there was an obvious cockup on the part of the government."
• "Israel's interior ministry insisted the incident was a "misunderstanding" and said the 81-year-old professor had not been blacklisted, while a senior government source described the situation as "a total cockup.""