Brewer's: Cock-a-hoop

or Cock-a-houp. To sit cock-a-houp. Boastful, defiant, like a game cock with his houpe or crest erect; eagerly expectant. (French, coq à huppe.)

And having routed a whole troop, With victory was cock-a-hoop.

Butler: Hudibras, i. 3.

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