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  • noun Plural form of cobbler.
  • noun Cockney rhyming slang testicles.
  • noun Cockney rhyming slang Nonsense.

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  • noun a man's testicles (from Cockney rhyming slang: cobbler's awl rhymes with ball)
  • noun nonsense

Etymologies

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Shortened from cobbler’s awls, for balls (testicles or nonsense)

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  • "Cobblers!" said Tom at last.

    December 14, 2007