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Definition of high cockalorum
1 British : a boys' game of leapfrog
—used as a shout during the game
2 : a person with pretensions to great importance : a high-and-mighty person : big shot placed himself as the high cockalorum of the universe— J. F. Stevens
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The first known use of high cockalorum was in 1857
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