Meaning of cobra | Babel Free

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

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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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