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cock a leg
collocation
(of an animal, especially a dog) to lift one of its back legs in order to urinate against something:
On a normal walk, dogs stop to cock a leg or have a sniff.
Our dog, Patch, approached the new fence gingerly, sniffed it, then cocked a leg.
The dog cocked its leg against a tree.
See
cock leg
No more cocking a leg against the goalpost, Rover.
On his way out, he cocked a leg swiftly and directed a powerful jet against an immaculate trouser leg.
Some people believe that graffiti is a human variant on cocking a leg.
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