Cobra

//ˈkəʊbɹə// name, noun

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    Initialism of Cabinet Office Briefing Room A. UK, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
  2. 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. 3
    Acronym of Cabinet Office Briefing Rooms. UK, abbreviation, acronym, alt-of, broadly
  4. 4
    A male given name. rare
  5. 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. 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. 2
    A cabinet committee meeting that would use a COBR room UK, broadly
  3. 3
    venomous Asiatic and African elapid snakes that can expand the skin of the neck into a hood wordnet
  4. 4
    A type of lanyard knot, thought to resemble a snake in its shape.
  5. 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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