See corncob in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"ref": "1858, Oliver Wendell Holmes, “The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table”, in The “Breakfast-Table” Series, George Routledge and Sons, published 1882, page 23:",
"text": "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.",
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"text": "Distracted cops, rude asteroids and the corncobbing of Andrew Koenig"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To defeat (someone) who then refuses to admit defeat."
],
"links": [
[
"Internet",
"Internet"
],
[
"slang",
"slang"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive, US, Internet slang) To defeat (someone) who then refuses to admit defeat."
],
"tags": [
"Internet",
"US",
"transitive"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈkɔːn.kɒb/",
"note": "non-rhotic"
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈkɔɹn.kɒb/",
"note": "rhotic"
},
{
"enpr": "kôrnʹ-kŏb",
"tags": [
"US"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈkɔɹn.kɑb/",
"tags": [
"US"
]
},
{
"audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-corncob.wav",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/c/cb/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-corncob.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-corncob.wav.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/c/cb/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-corncob.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-corncob.wav.ogg"
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "corn-cob"
},
{
"word": "corn cob"
}
],
"word": "corncob"
}
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