[‘an ejaculation or exclamation; also a boy’s game in which one set of players jump astride the others (who present a chain of ‘backs’), calling out Hey cockalorum, jig, jig, jig! (Hey cockalorum jig! is given as refrain of a popular song c 1800)’ (OED)]
a general excl.
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J. O’KeeffeDead Alive (1783) 16: A second-hand son of a sorcerer! a hey-cockalorum conjuror!].
DickensOliver Twist (1966) 134: ‘Toor rul lol loo, gammon and spinnage, the frog he wouldn’t, and high cockolorum,’ said the Dodger.