Pronunciations (3)
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/ˈkɔːn.kɒb/
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/ˈkɔɹn.kɒb/
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/ˈkɔɹn.kɑb/
Pronunciation notes
- US
Noun
The central cylindrical core of an ear of corn (maize) on which the kernels are attached in rows.
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London is like a shelled corncob on the Derby day, and there is not a clerk who could raise the money to hire a saddle with an old hack under it that can sit down on his office-stool the next day without wincing.
Six years of persistent research at the Bureau of Chemistry of the Department of Agriculture, has resulted in establishing the fact that a number of interesting and useful by-products can be derived from the humble corncob.
He bit into a corncob, and Chisom watched him munch with his mouth open, his jaws working the corn like a mini grinding machine.
A yokel.
Usage- Informal
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Verb
To disintegrate by the blades becoming severed from the axis
Usage- Intransitive
- of turbines and rotor blades
To defeat (someone) who then refuses to admit defeat.
Usage- Internet
- US usage
- Transitive
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“Do you enjoy being corncobbed?”
Trump had lost but was denying that this was the case. He had been corncobbed.
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Distracted cops, rude asteroids and the corncobbing of Andrew Koenig
Noun
the hard cylindrical core that bears the kernels of an ear of corn
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