OK, What's a Pillock?

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Date: 7/24/00 7:29 pm  (ET)

A pillock has absolutely nothing to do with a hillock. ::grins::
It means a prat, a wally, a twit, a foolish sort of person. General
term of derision roughly equivalent to "jerk", "idiot", "numbskull",
"dumbbell" etc in US slang.

--John, the New Yorker with a British accent