0 a poisonous snake from Africa and southern Asia that makes itself look bigger and more threatening by spreading the skin at the back of its head
1 abbreviation for Cabinet Office Briefing Rooms: a meeting room or rooms where an emergency committee (= official group) of the British government meets for urgent discussions, or the committee itself:
He held talks with security chiefs in the Parliament's emergency briefing room, COBRA, about whether to close the subway network.
Chairing the emergency Cobra committee, the Health Secretary said: "It's crucial we prepare for things getting worse."
Ministers broke off their holidays to hold an emergency Cobra meeting to discuss the outbreak.
2 a poisonous snake from Africa or southern Asia that can make itself look bigger by spreading the skin at the back of its head
Banning football matches was discussed by the Cobra emergency response committee.
The COBRA meeting was told that terrorists had developed the capacity to assemble the bombs.
Ministers will take part in mock emergency Cobra meetings and local emergency services will test their response to a potential disaster.
The cobra lives in old walls or heaps of stone and timber, under roots, or in dead trunks in the forest, in fact anywhere where he can find a sheltered hole.
The cobra, for example, when disturbed, raises its immense hood in a most terrifying attitude!
The snake-charmer keeps all sorts of them, but chiefly cobras.
When the charmer begins to play with a cobra he fixes his eyes on it and never removes them for a second.
