cobra

Definitions

1. Initialism of Cabinet Office Briefing Room A.
   UK, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
2. A cabinet committee meeting that would use a COBR room
   UK, broadly
3. Any of various venomous snakes of the genus Naja.
4. Alternative letter-case form of COBRA.
   UK, alt-of
5. Any of various venomous snakes of the genus Naja
6. Acronym of Cabinet Office Briefing Rooms.
   UK, abbreviation, acronym, alt-of, broadly
7. A cabinet committee that would meet using a COBR room
   UK, broadly
8. A type of lanyard knot, thought to resemble a snake in its shape.
9. A male given name.
   rare
10. A type of lanyard knot, thought to resemble a snake in its shape
11. 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

Equivalents

Examples

“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.”

“There were COBRA forms to fill⟳ out for insurance, and unemployment to file⟳ for.”

“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.”

“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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