Usually means: Cores of corn after eating.
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  1. cobs: Merriam-Webster
  2. cobs: Collins English Dictionary
  3. cobs: Vocabulary.com
  4. Cobs, cob's, cobs: Wordnik
  5. cobs: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. COBs, cobs: Wiktionary
  7. COBS: Dictionary.com
  8. Cobs: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. COBS: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. COBS: Encyclopedia

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  1. COBS: Medical dictionary

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  1. COBS: Acronym Finder
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  1. cobs: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. C.O.B.S, Cobs: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (COB)

noun:  A corncob.
noun:  The seed-bearing head of a plant.
noun:  A male swan.
noun:  (East Anglia) A gull, especially the black-backed gull (Larus marinus); also spelled cobb.
noun:  A lump or piece of anything, usually of a somewhat large size, as of coal, or stone.
noun:  (Midlands) A round, often crusty roll or loaf of bread.
noun:  (uncountable) A building material consisting of clay, sand, straw, water, and earth, similar to adobe; also called cobb, rammed earth or pisé.
noun:  A horse having a stout body and short legs.
noun:  Any of the gold and silver coins that were minted in the Spanish Empire and valued in reales or escudos, such as the piece of eight—especially those which were crudely struck and irregularly shaped.
noun:  (obsolete) One who is eminent, great, large, or rich.
noun:  A spider (cf. cobweb).
noun:  A small fish, the miller's thumb.
noun:  A large fish, especially the kabeljou (variant spelling of kob).
noun:  (obsolete) The head of a herring.
noun:  (obsolete) A tower or small castle on top of a hill.
noun:  (obsolete) A thresher.
noun:  (music, historical) A cylinder with pins in it, encoding music to be played back mechanically by a barrel organ.
noun:  (dated or historical) A person of mixed black and white ancestry, especially a griffe; a mulatto.
verb:  To construct using mud blocks or to seal a wall using mud or an artificial equivalent.
verb:  (of growing corn) To have the heads mature into corncobs.
verb:  To remove the kernels from a corncob.
verb:  To thresh.
verb:  To break up ground with a hoe.
verb:  To beat with a flat instrument; to paddle.
verb:  (Northern UK, colloquial) To throw, chuck, lob.
verb:  To chip off unwanted pieces of stone, so as to form a desired shape or improve the quality of mineral ore.
noun:  A punishment consisting of blows inflicted on the buttocks with a strap or a flat piece of wood.
noun:  Coordination of Benefits
noun:  Chairman of the Board
noun:  Chip on Board
noun:  Clive's Original Band, band started by Clive Palmer after he left The Incredible String Band.
noun:  Clipping of cobnut. [A nut of a common hazel (Corylus avellana); hazelnut.]
noun:  Abbreviation of cobble. [A cobblestone.]
noun:  Alternative form of COB [Coordination of Benefits]
noun:  (US, military) Initialism of contingency operating base.
noun:  (military) Acronym of chief of boat.
noun:  Initialism of close of business; the end of day on a business day. [The end of a business day.]
noun:  (sports) Abbreviation of Cobourg. [A town, the county seat of Northumberland County, Ontario, Canada, situated on Lake Ontario.]
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