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Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
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name
Initialism of Cabinet Office Briefing Room A.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Topics: government, politics
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Broader terms: COBR
name
Acronym of Cabinet Office Briefing Rooms.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK, abbreviation, acronym, alt-of, broadly
Topics: government, politics
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Synonyms: COBR
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name
Initialism of Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985, especially the provision that allows some employees to continue their group-based health insurance after leaving a job; also, health insurance obtained under this law.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: US, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Topics: law
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name
Alternative letter-case form of COBRA.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK, alt-of
Topics: government, politics
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name
A male given name.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: rare
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noun
Any of the genus Naja of venomous snakes that can spread their neck ribs into a broad hood when threatened; a true cobra.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
Certain other snakes of the family Elapidae.
A ring-necked spitting cobra or rinkhals (Hemachatus haemachatus).
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noun
Certain other snakes of the family Elapidae.
A king cobra (Ophiophagus hannah).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
Certain other snakes of the family Elapidae.
A tree cobra (genus Pseudohaje).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
Certain other snakes of the family Elapidae.
A shield-nosed cobra/coral cobra (genus Aspidelaps).
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noun
Certain other snakes of the family Elapidae.
A black desert cobra (genus Walterinnesia).
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noun
Certain other snakes of the family Elapidae.
An American cobra (Micrurus fulvius).
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noun
A false water cobra, Hydrodynastes gigas.
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noun
A type of lanyard knot, thought to resemble a snake in its shape.
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noun
A cabinet committee meeting that would use a COBR room
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK, broadly
Topics: government, politics
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noun
A cabinet committee that would meet using a COBR room
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK, broadly
Topics: government, politics
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noun
venomous Asiatic and African elapid snakes that can expand the skin of the neck into a hood
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: elapid, elapid snake
Narrower terms: Indian cobra, Naja naja, asp, Egyptian cobra, Naja haje, black-necked cobra, spitting cobra, Naja nigricollis, hamadryad, king cobra, Ophiophagus hannah, Naja hannah
History
Borrowed from Portuguese cobra, from Latin colubra (“a female snake”).
Across languages
84 source translations are retained for this English entry.
