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Cobra
//ˈkəʊbɹə// name, noun
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Proper Noun
- 1 Initialism of Cabinet Office Briefing Room A. UK, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
- 2 Alternative letter-case form of COBRA. UK, alt-of
"Boris Johnson was accused on Saturday of being “missing in action” after failing to attend a Cobra meeting to discuss the national heatwave emergency following predictions that thousands could die in the coming days."
- 3 Acronym of Cabinet Office Briefing Rooms. UK, abbreviation, acronym, alt-of, broadly
- 4 A male given name. rare
- 5 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. US, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
"There were COBRA forms to fill out for insurance, and unemployment to file for."
Noun
- 1 Any of various venomous snakes of the genus Naja.
"In the pools, too, was a species of small alligator or enormous iguana, I do not know which, that fed, Billali told me, upon the waterfowl, also large quantities of a hideous black water-snake, of which the bite is very dangerous, though not, I gathered, so deadly as a cobra's or a puff adder's."
- 2 A cabinet committee meeting that would use a COBR room UK, broadly
- 3 venomous Asiatic and African elapid snakes that can expand the skin of the neck into a hood wordnet
- 4 A type of lanyard knot, thought to resemble a snake in its shape.
- 5 A cabinet committee that would meet using a COBR room UK, broadly
Etymology
Borrowed from Portuguese cobra, from Latin colubra (“a female snake”).
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