Cock tease (sometimes cock-tease or cocktease or also prick-tease) is derisive sexual slang used to describe a person who acts in a sexual manner to seduce men without actually fulfilling the sexual actions. The term has been in use in Great Britain and the United States since the 19th century. In Latin the term might be mentula vexos or mentula crucio.
The phrase is also used metaphorically, as an allusion to any similarly frustrating teasing done by someone else irrespective of whether it is sexual or not.
The term has been widely used in popular culture.