by Mark December 22, 2004
A unbroken chain of bad decisions, usually resulting in the creation of something that is bad in theory and even worse in practice. First used by video game reviewer Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw.
by Father Gascoigne January 17, 2017
(n) 1. Software installed on one's hard drive to prevent various interweb cock ups. 2. What livejournal should have installed on their servers to prevent Strikethrough 2007.
Livejournal: I'm in ur journals bahleetin ur pr0n.
Livejournal users: O NOES U GOT THE WRONG PR0N. GIVE IT BACK.
Livejournal: O HAY. Our bad. Will install Cock-Up Blocker ASAP.
Livejournal users: O NOES U GOT THE WRONG PR0N. GIVE IT BACK.
Livejournal: O HAY. Our bad. Will install Cock-Up Blocker ASAP.
by faire_weather June 1, 2007
What the hell does cock up mean???
Does anyone know what it means?
by William Shakespeare December 12, 2003
A stealth video game situation where stealth is no longer an option and you can either fight and will probably die, or restart from the last checkpoint.
by Labradorite July 28, 2022
A condition (or an incident) where you get unintentionally very, very drunk and more or less accidentally end up having sex with one of your colleagues. At every fucking company christmas party.
Oh look at so-and-so, she's leaving with yet another man from the engineering department. Didn't she go home with X last year? And, she's very, very drunk. What a pre-christmas cock-up. Again.
by silvamysticum December 1, 2010
When people cc a whole bunch of private addresses on an email when they should really have bcc'd them because cc exposes the email addresses to the other recipients, whereas bcc does not.
Oh crikey, the UK Ministry of Defense made a blind carbon cock-up by cc'ing a bunch of afghan interpreters instead of bcc'ing them.
by BorisBikes September 22, 2021