A British and Irish slang idiom meaning to die — a phrase that evokes the image of a body's toes pointing upward in death as the muscles relax. The phrase is darkly humorous and deliberately euphemistic, typical of the British and Irish tendency to approach death with deadpan wit.
The old dog finally cocked his toes on a Tuesday morning, which the family agreed was very like him.
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(UK, Ireland, idiom, slang) To die.
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Regional slang from around the English-speaking world — British, Australian, Irish, Caribbean, Nigerian, Filipino, AAVE, and the hyphenated-English dialects that make the internet sound local.
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