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cobblers

n. 1 (plural of cobbler English) 2 (context Cockney rhyming slang English) testicles. 3 (context Cockney rhyming slang English) nonsense.

WordNet
cobblers
  1. n. nonsense; "I think that is a load of cobblers"

  2. a man's testicles (from Cockney rhyming slang: cobbler's awl rhymes with ball)

Usage examples of "cobblers".

I saw him ride along Broad Street, and the shopkeepers and cobblers stood up to gape at him.

I've got the briskets and scalloped potatoes in the oven, and the cobblers don't need tending for a good half hour.

Conversely, by peering over the gutter, they could watch people going in and out of the building across Cobblers Lane-number twelve, Nick and Garni’s building.

Coopersmith strode determinedly down Cobblers Lane, flanked by six tough-looking men.

He held an elaborately carved meerschaum pipe and stared about the rubble that had once been number 12, Cobblers Lane.

The cobblers would all bang on their lasts at once, the apprentices would whistle—and where did they find so many bits of lemon peel and rotten tomatoes?

The sewn-up Gappy had been escorted to New Cobblers, where Fred Colon had patiently explained events to the man's parents with his round red face radiating honesty.