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Well there is also the expression used by teens "cop a feel" to mean HE slyly felt HER breast in a way that made it look accidental. 
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I've been keeping my mouth shut, because I can't remember a similar expression or group of expressions "cock-up" may be punning on: "___-up" meaning, "a brawl." "Cock-up" would then be from cock fight, and the shambles would be the aftermath (presumeably of a brawl between men, as in a bar room brawl).
Anyway, in the days of Viagra, a cock-up need no longer be a shambles.
Sorry.
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I was watching a history programme the other day and a fletcher was demonstrating archery. He asserted that the phrase cock-up came from archery, when the arrow is drawn with the feathers in the wrong position (unsure what that is), misfires and spins away.
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