Cobra

See also: COBRA, cobra, cobrá, cobrà, and cobră

English

Proper noun

Cobra

  1. (UK politics) Alternative letter-case form of COBRA
    • 2022 July 16, Mark Townsend, James Tapper, “Johnson skips emergency Cobra meeting as experts warn thousands may die in UK heatwave”, in The Observer‎, →ISSN:
      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.
    • 2023 June 24, Pjotr Sauer, Andrew Roth, “Putin accuses Wagner chief of treason and vows to ‘neutralise’ uprising”, in The Guardian‎, →ISSN:
      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.
  2. (rare) A male given name.
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