Wiktionary
n. (context US English) A salad consisting of iceberg lettuce, watercress, endive and Romaine lettuce with tomato, bacon, chicken, hard-boiled egg, avocado, chives, Roquefort cheese and a red wine vinaigrette
Wikipedia
The Cobb salad is a main-dish American garden salad made from chopped salad greens ( iceberg lettuce, watercress, endives and Romaine lettuce), tomato, crisp bacon, boiled, grilled or roasted (but not fried) chicken breast, hard-boiled egg, avocado, chives, Roquefort cheese, and red-wine vinaigrette. Black olives are also often included.
One way to remember the components is to use the mnemonic EAT COBB: Egg, Avocado, Tomato, Chicken, Onion, Bacon, Blue cheese—then add lettuce.
Usage examples of "cobb salad".
She knew there were at least twenty patrol cars cruising the area, watching every bit of Cobb salad she speared with her fork.
Two pizzas, a salami sandwich, and a huge Cobb salad with extra chicken had arrived with gratifying speed.
She knew that the chef, for oddly enough there was actually a live human in the kitchen, varied his menu not a whit, and that it offered such uninspired choices as Cobb Salad, grilled cheese sandwiches, and hamburgers.
Admiral Keith Loggins, deputy AIRPAC, gazed down at his Cobb salad in disgust.
The rest of them ate at the table, enjoying the food at a leisurely pace: Cobb salad, followed by rare roast in wine sauce, served with baked potatoes stuffed with sour cream and chives.