Definitions
Venomous hooded snake from the elapid family.
Word origin
Borrowed from Portuguese cobra, from Latin colubra (“a female snake”).
Used in a sentence
“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.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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01“Hooded snake”5 letters
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