Definitions

1. Noun:
   • Stork: A type of wading bird with long legs, a long neck, and a pointed beak, often found near water.
   • Trigger: The part of a gun or device that is pressed or pulled to fire it or activate a mechanism.
   • (Informal) Postage stamp: A small piece of paper issued by a post office for sending mail.
   • (Informal) Police officer, detective: A colloquial term for a police officer or investigator.

Usage Examples

• Noun (Stork):
  • Con cò đang đứng trên một chân ở đầm lầy. (The stork is standing on one leg in the marsh.)
  • Cánh đồng rộng cò bay thẳng cánh. (The field is so vast a stork could fly straight across it [idiom for immense expanse].)
• Noun (Trigger):
  • Anh ta nhẹ nhàng đặt ngón tay lên cò súng. (He gently placed his finger on the gun's trigger.)
  • Bóp cò! (Pull the trigger!)
• Noun (Postage stamp):
  • Tôi cần mua một con cò để gửi bưu thiếp. (I need to buy a stamp to send the postcard.)
• Noun (Police officer):
  • Cẩn thận, có cò ở phía trước. (Be careful, there's a cop ahead.)

Advanced Usage

• "cò mồi" / "cò đất": A broker or middleman, especially in real estate or ticket sales, often with a negative connotation of profiteering.
  • Giá nhà tăng một phần do hoạt động của các cò đất. (Housing prices have risen partly due to the activities of property brokers.)
• "cò quay": A crank (mechanical part).
• "đục nước béo cò": An idiom meaning "to fish in troubled waters" or to profit from a chaotic situation.

Variants and Related Words

• Cò cò (adj): Describes a hopping or limping gait.
• Còng (adj, different word): Bent, hunched (e.g., - hunched back).
• Cồ (adj, different word): Large, big (e.g., - very large).

Synonyms

• For Stork: (heron, crane - similar bird types).
• For Trigger: (button), (lever).
• For Police officer: , (formal terms), (detective).
• For Postage stamp: (standard word for stamp).

Related Phrases (Phrasal Verbs)

• Bóp cò: To pull/press the trigger.
• Cướp cò: To have a hair-trigger temper; to be very quick to anger.
• Nhả cò: To release the trigger.

Related Idioms

• Cò bay thẳng cánh: Describes an immensely wide, open area (like a field over which a stork could fly without flapping).
• Lò dò như cò bắt tép: To move slowly and cautiously, like a stork hunting for shrimp.
• Đục nước béo cò: To fish in troubled waters; to take advantage of a confused situation for personal gain.

noun

1. Stork
   • cò bay thẳng cánh
2. (nói về đồng ruộng) Immense (over which a stork can take a long flight)
   • Như cẩm
     Trigger
   • bóp cò
     to press the trigger
3. Postage stamp