The act of coalescing. / (phonology) The merging of two segments into one.

(US) A service provided at certain businesses which allows one to check one's coat for safekeeping while inside.

A black, viscous tar made by the destructive distillation of coal (to make coke and town gas); it contains a great number of compounds including hydrocarbons and phenols; used in the preparation of medicated soap and shampoo, and industrially for the manufacture of very many products.

(medicine, formal) The final (bottom-most) fused vertebrae at the base of the spine, the tailbone.

Of an intensely black colour, like that of coal.

A black colour, like that of coal; charcoal.

Alternative form of COBOL

(Britain) Initialism of Cabinet Office Briefing Room A. / (UK, by extension) Acronym of Cabinet Office Briefing Rooms.

(UK, by extension) A cabinet committee meeting that would use a COBR room / (UK, by extension) A cabinet committee that would meet using a COBR room

A region along the Pacific Ocean in the contiguous United States. / (chiefly New Zealand) A region on the western side of the South Island of New Zealand.