COBRA

• Cobra

COBRA

1. (UK politics) Initialism of Cabinet Office Briefing Room A.

   Hypernym: COBR

2. (UK politics, by extension) Acronym of Cabinet Office Briefing Rooms.

   Synonym: COBR

3. (US, law) Initialism of Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985, especially the provision that allows some employees to continue their group-based health insurance after leaving a job; also, health insurance obtained under this law.
   • 2021, Ruth Ozeki, The Book of Form and Emptiness, Canongate Books (2022), page 478:

     There were COBRA forms to fill out for insurance, and unemployment to file for.

COBRA (plural COBRAs)

1. (UK politics, by extension) A cabinet committee meeting that would use a COBR room
2. (UK politics, by extension) A cabinet committee that would meet using a COBR room

• cobra

• Barco, CORBA, Carbo, carbo, carbo-, carob, coarb