Meaning

• A male domestic chicken (Gallus gallus domesticus) or other gallinaceous bird.

• A bird or bat which roosts or is roosting.

• An informer.

• A violent or disorderly person.

• A powerful, prideful, or pompous person.

• (originally United States slang) A man.

• A wild violet, when used in a children's game based on cockfighting.

• Legislation solely devised to benefit the legislators proposing it.