kob

[ kob, kohb ]

/ kɒb, koʊb /

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noun

an African antelope, Kobus kob, related to the puku and the lechwe.

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Origin of kob

1765–75; said to be <Wolof koba

Words nearby kob

KO, koa, koala, koan, koap, kob, Kobarid, Kobe, Kobe beef, København, Koblenz

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How to use kob in a sentence

Korn has got one thing that noboddy else has got, and that iz a kob.
The Complete Works of Josh Billings|Henry W. Shaw
Sarcobasis, sr-kob′a-sis, n. a fruit consisting of many dry indehiscent cells.
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements)|Various
You will often see little boys and girls running down steps and paved streets on these dangerous kob kobs.
The Women of the Arabs|Henry Harris Jessup
(Euripides i, 86) suggesting that the Wooden Horse was a sar-kob.
The Bbur-nma in English|Babur, Emperor of Hindustan

That the tzeiran, koba, and kob, are varieties of another: 3.
Buffon's Natural History. Volume VIII (of 10)|Georges Louis Leclerc de Buffon

British Dictionary definitions for kob

kob

/ (kɒb) /

noun

any of several species of African antelope, esp Kobus kob: similar to waterbucks

Word Origin for kob

C20: from a Niger-Congo language; compare Wolof koba, Fulani kōba

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