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cobra
UK /ˈkəʊbɹə/ US /ˈkoʊbɹə/
name 5noun 4
Collocations
3ADJ.
dead, deadly, inside
VERB + COBRA
attend, bitten, found
COBRA + NOUN
car, security, tom
Definitions
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 type of lanyard knot, thought to resemble a snake in its shape.
name
1
Initialism of Cabinet Office Briefing Room A.
2
Acronym of Cabinet Office Briefing Rooms.
3
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.
There were COBRA forms to fill out for insurance, and unemployment to file for.
noun
1
A cabinet committee meeting that would use a COBR room
2
A cabinet committee that would meet using a COBR room
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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 whi
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There were COBRA forms to fill out for insurance, and unemployment to file for.
Wiktionary03
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
Wiktionary04
In the UK, a Cobra security meeting was called and in Estonia, which neighbours Russia, the prime minister, Kaja Kallas, said there was strengthened security on the border.
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A cobra bit Tom.
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Tom was bitten by a cobra.
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