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cold-cock

  [kohld-kok]
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–verb (used with object) Slang.
to knock (someone) unconscious, as with the fist.
Origin:
1925–30
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cold·cock   (kōld'kŏk')   
tr.v.   cold·cocked, cold·cock·ing, cold·cocks Slang
To knock (another) unconscious.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
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coldcock

  1. tv.
    to knock someone out. : The clerk coldcocked the would-be robber with a champagne bottle.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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