Posted Apr 8, 2007 by Skeptician
I was told that the term 'cock up' was originally typographical, not anatomical (or even from brewing as claimed in the Swearwords posting).
A retired printer explained that the term for a letter that was not correctly aligned with the other letters, being tilted in the sense of a cocked hat, is 'cocked up'. If this error was not corrected before the type was cast and printed, the result could be costly to correct.
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