" cob "

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1: Acronym for Close of Business. Usually referring to a 5:00PM deadline.

  * e.g.,  ... Middle manager: "umm, if you could just get that done by COB, that would be terrrrrrrific." 

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1: Slang for a crusty bread roll used in the midlands, usually in Leicester, Derby and Nottingham.

  * e.g.,  ... If one ever has the fortune of being around these parts, be sure to ask for a 'cheese and onion cob me duck' in the local 'Cob Shop'. 

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1: cum on body

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1: The cardboard tube at the center of the toilet paper roll. The word is possibly derived from the folk custom of wiping one's ass on corn husks or corn cobs, though it is uncommon to perform this operation with a cardboard cob.

  * e.g.,  ... My kid needed cardboard tubes for her school craft project, so we used the cobs from our toilet paper rolls. 

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1: A roll of Toilet Paper. Based on story of humans wiping with a corn cob, minus the kernels of course. May have originated in the deep south or on a rez near you.

  * e.g.,  ... I'm going to the store to get some cobs! I need a cob. 

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1: Northern English slang for a bread roll (shaped similar to a cobble stone)

  * e.g.,  ... I was starving, so I ate a sausage cob 

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1: to be in a mood, angry, or be having a mard

  * e.g.,  ... Nick was so pissed off he was having a right cob at me 

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1: a highly corny person.. or an airhead(not the candy) origin: midwest

  * e.g.,  ... when someone is speaking and all the people around arent interested, and wants them to be quiet.. that person speaking is a cob 

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1: cob.....a northern term for bread roll.

  * e.g.,  ... (speaking to sulky teenager)..."What`s wit` cob on? Has your mum made you tidy your room?" 

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2: cob.....something to do with corn.

  * e.g.,  ... "Come on, let`s cob some bricks through that paedo`s flat window!" 

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3: cob.....a northern word for sulking. A 'cob on'

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4: cob.....to throw something.

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5: cobbed....to have thrown something

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6: cobbing....to be throwing something

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1: An acronym for "Council of the Bean", Cob refers to any willing group of people who regularly meet with a purpose, in any local coffee-house of their choosing. (*Costa excluded)

  * e.g.,  ... Bernie: "Tomorrow is Thursday, almost time for Cob! Time to get my "Bernie Bean" t-shirt good and ironed!" 

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2: Traditional Cob rituals included member aliases, which include their real name, and an alliterative prefix/suffix which is coffee-house related, replacing the coffee-house and caffeine with a club and some alcohol at least once a month, and having the designated driver veer off the road at least twice on the way home from Cob. New members are initiated with a piping hot double espresso, while members who wish to be stricken from the Council list must ingest two spoonfuls of used coffee grounds.

  * e.g.,  ... Kevin: "I feel under-appreciated by my fellow Cobbers, they always insult my driving despite the fact that I'm the only one who can drive - oh well, I know they only mean well, and I can take a good joke." 

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3: Founded in a small coffee-house, lost to the mists of time, in Glasgow, Scotland, Cob's have since sprung up all over the globe, reaching from the caffeine-rationing suburbs of Tokyo, to the dizzying heights of the Space Needle's Starbucks in Chicago.

  * e.g.,  ... Neil: "I, Nacho Neil, call this meeting of the Council of the Bean to order. Latte Lesley; the minutes from the last meeting, please." 

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4: Whether Cob is just a temporal fad, or whether or not it will stand the test of time, remains to be seen; we can however be certain that it will never be forgotten.