The phrase "a cock of" is grammatically correct but context-dependent in written English.
It can be used in informal or colloquial contexts, often referring to a male bird or in slang expressions.
Example: "He strutted around like a cock of the walk, full of confidence."
Alternatives: "a king of" or "a lord of".
It was subtle and beautiful, its notes on par with those of the most exquisite flutist, but still not a cock of the rock.
A short pass from the ruck here, a guiding nudge of a forward's back there, and always a cock of the head left and right to check the developing position.
McQueen, as a wily rifleman, steals scenes with a cascade of graceful minimalist gestures, whether he's pumping lead into his gun or adjusting for glare with a cock of his cowboy hat.
27th over: Australia 194-1 (Gilchrist 132 Ponting 7) Gilchrist drops to a crouch with a cock of his back knee and swings a huge six away over mid wicket with a tremendous woodsman's waft of a shot.
At times, Grant is content to keep the burlesque on a leash, using a cock of the head or an arch of the eyebrow to add some mustard to his dialogue.
"He's the person who can steal a sketch with not even a word ― a cock of the eyebrow," said Will Forte, who joined the show one year before Thompson.
Sexiness is suggested by sucked-in cheeks, pouting lips, a nonchalant cock of the head and a hint of bare flesh just below the clavicle.
Curry was like Freddie Mercury in fishnets, a strutting cock of the walk who made a meal out of every line — even his big entrance, on "How do you do I / see you've met my / faithful handyman".
And even then, it would be done silently: a slight cock of Julian's head, to suggest that he didn't agree with Adrian's calculations.
Additionally, vocal inflections, facial expressions -- the lift of an eyebrow, cock of the head, twinkle of the eye -- can all be useful in buffering criticism, clarifying questions and concerns, or transmitting arcane or particularly challenging instructions.
Because there really is an ocean of creativity that separates a Robert Mapplethorpe photograph of a cock from a Lucian Freud painting of one.
