cockahoop

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cockahoop (comparative more cockahoop, superlative most cockahoop)

  1. Alternative form of cock-a-hoop
    • 1912, Pearson's magazine: Volume 27:
      She'd only think it was a trap; or she'd think I'd caved in and be so cockahoop we should never get any forrarder.
    • 2021 April 29, Jamie Jackson, “Edinson Cavani and Bruno Fernandes help Manchester United hit Roma for six”, in The Guardian[1]:
      Then, when Fernandes’s cross landed expertly on Paul Pogba’s head the Frenchman delivered a cool finish before Mason Greenwood’s late strike had them cockahoop.