Definitions

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  • adjective Resembling or characteristic of a cobra.

Etymologies

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cobra +‎ -like

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Examples

  • But one thing was clear: The thugs respected, or perhaps feared, the man with the cobralike face who issued commands with a wave of the hand or a stare.

    BLASTIN’ THE BLUES LOREN LONG 2010

  • But one thing was clear: The thugs respected, or perhaps feared, the man with the cobralike face who issued commands with a wave of the hand or a stare.

    BLASTIN’ THE BLUES LOREN LONG 2010

  • He was not a second too soon, for the moment he was clear of the shelter something large and snakelike crashed down on it with a large crack: the tail of a hydralisk, which now lifted its monstrous, cobralike head and reared back, poised to strike.

    Shadow Hunters Christie Golden 2007

  • The cobralike thing—hydralisk, that was the name; somehow it was important to Howard to use the proper term for things, even now when the properly named hydralisk was about to kill her and the thought made hysteria bubble up inside her—reared back and spat something on Ethan.

    Shadow Hunters Christie Golden 2007

  • He has no second thoughts when he flicks his annoying cobralike “Yuh fie-yahd” hand gesture at some whimpering “Apprentice” ass-clown.

    Why Fantasy Football Matters Erik Barmack 2006

  • He has no second thoughts when he flicks his annoying cobralike “Yuh fie-yahd” hand gesture at some whimpering “Apprentice” ass-clown.

    Why Fantasy Football Matters Erik Barmack 2006

  • He flexed his lateral spinal cords to spread his cobralike neck as wide and as threateningly as possible.

    Captain’s Peril William Shatner with Judith 2002

  • He flexed his lateral spinal cords to spread his cobralike neck as wide and as threateningly as possible.

    Captain’s Peril William Shatner with Judith 2002

  • He flexed his lateral spinal cords to spread his cobralike neck as wide and as threateningly as possible.

    Captain’s Peril William Shatner with Judith 2002

  • The male duck-billed platypus infuses its heel spurs with a cobralike poison.

    NYT > Global Home By NATALIE ANGIER 2012

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