Cobb salad

American  

[kob sal-uhd] / ˈkɒb ˌsæl əd /

Or cobb salad

noun

1. a salad of lettuce, chopped chicken breast, bacon, cheddar, avocado, tomato, and hard-boiled egg, typically with a blue cheese and vinaigrette dressing.

---

Etymology

Origin of Cobb salad

First recorded in 1945–50; named after Robert Howard Cobb (1899–1970), U.S. restaurateur and owner of the Brown Derby restaurants

Example Sentences

Enjoy them as is for a quick, on-the-go breakfast, toss them into a Cobb salad, mash them into egg salad, slice them into homemade ramen or add them to fried rice.

From Salon • Mar. 4, 2025

Charlie stabbed mindlessly at his corner-store Cobb salad, and by the second time he asked Keith to repeat something he’d just said, Keith’s expression sank into sharp suspicion.

From Slate • Aug. 27, 2022

Here’s a Cobb salad with a tropical twist.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 17, 2022

Take the Cobb salad, invented here at the renowned Brown Derby restaurant, the flagship of several Brown Derbys, not all of them in the hat-shaped architectural style called “programmatic,” like that donut-shaped donut store.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 12, 2022

I order the four-cheese pasta, which is like mac and cheese all maxed out, and a small Cobb salad because Anastasia insists I eat something green and healthy.

From "Blended" by Sharon M. Draper