Crossword clues for cobber
Wiktionary
n. (context Australia English) A pal, buddy, mate, friend; ''often used in direct address by one male to another''.
WordNet
n. Australian term for a pal
Wikipedia
Cobber is an Australian and New Zealand word for "mate" or "friend".
Cobber or Cobbers may also refer to:
- Edgar Kain (1918-1940), New Zealand Second World War flying ace nicknamed "Cobber"
- the athletics teams of Concordia College (Moorhead, Minnesota)
- River Cobber, Cornwall, England - see Coverack Bridges
Usage examples of "cobber".
He was an old cobber, and though the conditions at Lands Command might be the most benign left anywhere in the world, even they were entering an extreme phase.
But it was the best reassurance Victory could give the old cobber now.
After that first Ten, there had been no obvious reaction, but it felt good to show the cobber how they felt about her.
The leader was a sharp, last-generation cobber with the look of a senior noncom.
Rachner Thract was very new to his job, a young cobber and a Tiefer immigrant.
But the cobber was trying, substituting obsession for buoyant enthusiasm.
He almost turned to follow the cobber, then remembered his own urgency and continued into the joint command post.
Director of Intelligence made the average cobber uneasy about her and the team.
He was about to throw it to the floor when the cobber on the next perch whacked him across the back.
Thract could almost hear the cobber collecting his wits, trying not to blather.
He knew the stories about Underhill, that the poor cobber had lost it mentally.
Maybe the cobber had changed his mind, or simply forgotten what he was about.
She remembered the old cobber who needed a guide-bug to keep from walking in circles.
When I said I could murder the cobber if we fought under low gravity, I must have put an idea into his head, and when we had the fight he stood there waiting at the lever.
He made out Mindes was doing it, but that Urteil was a lying cobber and nothing he says has to be believed.