cockatoo
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Noun
cockatoo (plural cockatoos)
- A bird of the family Cacatuidae with a curved beak and a zygodactyl foot. [from 1610s]
- (slang, obsolete) A lookout posted during a two-up game, when gambling was illegal.
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Derived terms
- Major Mitchell's Cockatoo
- red-tailed black cockatoo
- sulphur-crested cockatoo
Translations
a bird
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Further reading
- “cockatoo” in Douglas Harper, Online Etymology Dictionary, 2001–2019.
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