Definitions for Cobra

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Cobra co·bra

Spelling: [koh-bruh]

IPA: /ˈkoʊ brə/

Cobra is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 70 anagrams from letters in Cobra (abcor).

Definitions for Cobra

noun

1. any of several highly venomous, Old World elapid snakes of the genera Naja and Ophiophagus, characterized by the ability to flatten the neck into a hoodlike form when disturbed.
2. any of several similar, related African snakes, as the ringhals.
3. leather made from the skin of a cobra.
4. (initial capital letter) Military. a single-engine, two-seat U.S. Army attack helicopter armed with missiles, rockets, and a 20mm cannon and in service since 1977.
5. head; skull.

Origin of Cobra

First recorded in 1810-20; short for cobra de capello

Examples for Cobra

It was a cobra capella had bitten him in the calf of the leg.

Miraculously, and thanks to three hundred Marines and cobra attack helicopters, the convoy made it to Kirkuk.

If you are only a sweeper, be glad that you were not born a pig or a cobra.

Now neither the cobra nor the Cerastes is actually a water serpent.

It was beautifully tattooed in red and blue, like the scales of a cobra.

They will not touch or kill a cobra, and do not swear by it.

Her husband, Major John Ruocco USMC was a decorated cobra pilot and died by suicide on February 7, 2005.

The cobra, or spectacled snake, is the most poisonous snake in India.

This is probably because they revere the cobra as their first mother.

Her cobra benefits have run out, leaving her without coverage.