Definitions for cockpit

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cockpit cock·pit

Spelling: [kok-pit]

IPA: /ˈkɒkˌpɪt/

Cockpit is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 17 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 20 points.

You can make 96 anagrams from letters in cockpit (ccikopt).

Definitions for cockpit

noun

1. a space, usually enclosed, in the forward fuselage of an airplane containing the flying controls, instrument panel, and seats for the pilot and copilot or flight crew.
2. a sunken, open area, generally in the after part of a small vessel, as a yacht, providing space for the pilot, part or all of the crew, or guests.
3. the space, including the seat and instrumentation, surrounding the driver of an automobile.
4. a pit or enclosed place for cockfights.
5. a place where a contest is fought or which has been the scene of many contests or battles.
6. (formerly) a space below the water line in a warship, occupied by the quarters of the junior officers and used as a dressing station for those wounded in action.

Origin of cockpit

First recorded in 1580-90; cock¹ + pit¹

Examples for cockpit

You will feel both embarrassed and grateful for this, even as you wonder why the cockpit looks like a 1950s sci-fi set.

The fust hop landed me on my knees in the cockpit, and there I stayed.

And increasingly smart navigation aids in the cockpit brought far greater precision and efficiency to route planning.

But at the same instant Chris leaped desperately from the cockpit of the scout.

With a word of farewell, he climbed out of the cockpit and onto a wing.

Some airline chiefs believe that there was an invasion of the cockpit.

Their country had been the cockpit of Europe from the time of Csar until Waterloo.

Into the cockpit, splashing, something dropped—a coil of rope.

He would navigate from the cockpit using a road atlas—while snorting cocaine off the map.

I believe there was a captain aboard, but Hughes kept throwing him out of the cockpit.