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What does half-cocked mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word half-cocked? Here's what it means.

Adjective
  1. (of a gun) Not fully cocked
  2. (of a plan etc) Not fully prepared
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Once an efficient person has thought through to a conclusion and made plans, he does not go off half-cocked because of something he hears.
I've told you they won't go off half-cocked as long as Westfall is on the job.
Now you wanna go off all half-cocked and take on one of the most powerful bastards in all of bastard-dom?
He is the most level-headed member of 162 the family, and would not fly off half-cocked.
I don't want to do it half-cocked and I don't want anyone else around me doing it half-cocked.
I could never have imagined myself going off half-cocked like that.

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