Usually means: Overconfidently assertive or boastful behavior.
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  1. cocky: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. cocky, cocky: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. cocky: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. cocky: Collins English Dictionary
  5. cocky: Vocabulary.com
  6. Cocky, cocky: Wordnik
  7. cocky: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. cocky: Wiktionary
  9. cocky: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. cocky: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. cocky: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Cocky, cocky: Dictionary.com
  13. cocky: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Cocky (album), Cocky (mascot), Cocky: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Cocky: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. cocky: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. cocky: Rhymezone
  18. Cocky: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. cocky: Free Dictionary
  20. cocky: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. cocky: Dictionary/thesaurus

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  1. cocky: Legal dictionary

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  1. cocky: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. cocky, cocky, cocky, cocky, cocky, cocky: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(Note: See cockier as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Overly confident; arrogant and boastful.
noun:  (chiefly British, Ireland, Newfoundland, colloquial, dated) Used as a term of endearment, originally for a person of either sex, but later primarily for a man.
noun:  (informal) A familiar name for a cockatoo.
verb:  (intransitive, chiefly Australia, informal, historical) To operate a small-scale farm.
noun:  (also attributively) Short for cockatoo farmer (“small-scale farmer”); (by extension) any farmer or owner of rural land. [(Australia, derogatory, obsolete) A small-scale farmer.]

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