(n.) A large, highly esteemed, edible fish of India (Lates calcarifer); -- also called begti.
Example Sentences:
(1) We had all zoned out a bit at the end of a long ceremony, but woke up with a start when La La Land producer Jordan Horowitz announced that it was a mistake, that Moonlight has won, and said what must for him have been sickening words: “This is not a joke.” Don't let that Oscars blunder overshadow Moonlight's monumental achievement Read more After that brush with the cockup-iceberg, our awards-season flagship Titanic was to limp very sheepishly into port.
(2) 'Maybe he needs to read more widely': authors respond to Gay Talese Read more Cockups are more easily forgiven when they happen in the latter half of a career.
(3) But what should we think – conspiracy, cockup or thinly veiled chaos?
(4) Cockup of the great toe is characterized by persistent extension of the first metatarsophalangeal joint; the interphalangeal joint also may be involved.
(5) This wasn't my mum's choice; it was because of a series of cockups at the hospital.
Lockup
Definition:
(n.) A place where persons under arrest are temporarily locked up; a watchhouse.
Example Sentences:
(1) The report specifies nothing about Freeman’s time at the secretive compound save for a seeming arrival at 4.10pm, only to note that he arrived in nearby district 11 lockup at 10.32pm.
(2) Inquests are yet to be held into the deaths of Maureen Mandijarra, a 44-year-old Aboriginal woman who died in Broome lockup on 30 November 2012, and Jayden Bennell, a 20-year-old Aboriginal man who died on 7 March 2013.
(3) Hayes needed to pay $854 to the court to avoid a jail sentence; because he had no money except a $730-a-month disability check, he was thrown in Richmond County lockup.
(4) Booking isn’t happening or is happening sporadically and inconsistently, which leads to the whole find-your-client game Craig Futterman, University of Chicago Law School “They’re not given access to phones, and the CPD’s admitted this, until they get to lockup – but there’s no lockup at Homan Square,” he said.
(5) We need to be pro-life for the 16-year-old drug addict on the floor of the county lockup,” he said.
(6) But he got into trouble again in both Alice and Darwin, and spent a few months in Darwin’s adult lockup.
(7) As my Canberra colleagues decamp to the budget lockup room you're with me for the next few hours as we await what will no doubt be a heated and revealing question time.
(8) Project staff from the National Center on Institutions and Alternatives (NCIA) gathered information from all jails (county and city) and police department lockups throughout the country regarding the incidence of jail suicides during 1985 and 1986.
(9) Dhu was taken into custody at the police lockup in South Hedland three days before her death after failing to pay a $1,000 fine.
(10) We need to be pro-life for the 16-year-old drug addict on the floor of the county lockup Chris Christie, New Jersey governor For Christie, who has placed his emphasis on New Hampshire while facing an uphill battle for the Republican nomination, heroin has been a key tenet of his campaign and was the subject of his first two television ads.
(11) The issue recently gained wider attention after the death of a 22-year-old Indigenous woman at a Port Hedland lockup .
(12) As I’m still down in the budget lockup, the opening couple of posts tonight are just going to help us set the scene without breaching any state secrets.
(13) During lockup other subsystems may be examined but action on them is delayed.
(14) Ms Dhu, whose first name is withheld for cultural reasons, was arrested for more than $1000 in unpaid fines and placed in the lockup of the South Hedland police station, 1640km north of Perth, to “cut out” her fines.
(15) Early investors in Chinese online giant Alibaba are set to sell $8bn worth of shares Friday morning, escaping the “lockup” that usually requires them to hold their shares for several months.
(16) The figures do not include people who died in police custody, like 22-year-old Yamatji woman Ms Dhu , whose name is not used at her the request of her family, who died in the South Hedland lockup in August 2014.
(17) Evidence for 'cognitive lockup' and for a preference for serial fault management were found.
(18) He twice escaped prison: first in in 2001, when he was wheeled in a laundry cart out the front door of a Guadalajara lockup, and again in 2015 as he slipped through a shaft connecting the shower in his cell with a mile-long tunnel built during his detention by associates.
(19) The issue attracted national attention when a 22-year-old Yamatji woman, Ms Dhu, died in Port Hedland police lockup after spending three days in custody to “pay down” overdue fines.
(20) This would address concerns that the end of a six-month lockup on share sales by major institutional investors timed for this Friday – and scheduled to free up an estimated 1.2 trillion yuan worth of shares for sale next Monday – would result in a massive institutional evacuation from stocks.