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n. - A young domestic male bird

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  • "This cockerel is going to be the best thing I've seen all night, but I've already bought something," he said.
  • The cockerel is a popular motif in modernist art, symbolising regeneration, awakening and strength.
  • In the kitchen, underneath the mirror and to the left of the etching of the cockerel was the word outspoken.
  • One MDC supporter described it like plucking the feathers off a cockerel (the cockerel is the symbol of Zanu-PF).
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