kob

American  

[kob, kohb] / kɒb, koʊb /

noun

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

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kob British  

/ kɒb /

noun

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

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Etymology

Origin of kob

1765–75; said to be < Wolof koba

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Example Sentences

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kob

From where I stood looking at them hartebeest, kob, waterbuck, and oribi were also all in sight.

From A Book-Lover's Holidays in the Open by Theodore Roosevelt

Korn has got one thing that noboddy else has got, and that iz a kob.

From The Complete Works of Josh Billings by Henry W. Shaw

The cob, sometimes spelled kob, however, is only an antelope, although a graceful and handsome one.

From In Africa Hunting Adventures in the Big Game Country by John T. McCutcheon

There are new bright red shoes, and old tattered shoes, and kob kobs, and black shoes, and sometimes yellow shoes.

From The Women of the Arabs by Charles S. (Charles Seymour) Robinson

You will often see little boys and girls running down steps and paved streets on these dangerous kob kobs.

From The Women of the Arabs by Charles S. (Charles Seymour) Robinson

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