Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
abbreviation of cash on delivery, 1859, originally American English.
Wikipedia
C.O.D. was an American electro musician (real name was Raul A. Rodriguez), who had a hit with "In the Bottle" which was released on Emergency Records and written by Gil-Scot Heron in 1983. The track reached #54 in the UK Singles Chart in May 1983.
Rodriguez was a DJ, notable for a residency at the nightclub New York-New York, and a remixer in the New York disco scene. As well as working his own project he produced the Man Parrish hit " Hip Hop, Be Bop (Don’t Stop)."
In 1985, his electro version of Frederick Knights's "Uphill (Peace of Mind)" was featured in the climactic dance-club scene in Michael Cimino's Year of the Dragon.
One of Raul's biggest remixes was of ABBA's "Lay All Your Love On Me" in 1980. Due to its popularity on the U.S. Hot Dance Club Play chart, ABBA decided to release their album version as a 12-inch single. Raul died on 4 January 2012 as the result of a severe stroke.
C.O.D. (also known as Children of Doom) is the sixth studio album by Saint Vitus. The album was released in 1992 on Hellhound Records. This is the only album to feature former Count Raven vocalist Chritus Linderson. The band broke up shortly after this album but reformed with original singer Scott Reagers for their next album, Die Healing (1995).
C.O.D. is a 1932 British crime film directed by Michael Powell and starring Garry Marsh, Arthur Stratton and Sybil Grove. A man assists a woman to dispose of the body of her stepfather.
The film has been declared "Missing, Believed Lost" by the British Film Institute.
"C.O.D." is the 325th episode of NBC's legal drama Law & Order and the 24th (and final) episode of the fourteenth season. The episode marks the final appearance of Jerry Orbach as Detective Lennie Briscoe after twelve years on the series.