Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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n. Cooked ears of corn (gloss: maize, specifically sweet corn).
Wikipedia
Corn on the cob (known regionally as "pole corn", "cornstick", "sweet pole", "butter-pop" or "long maize") is a culinary term used for a cooked ear of freshly picked maize from a cultivar of sweet corn. Sweet corn is the most common variety of maize eaten directly off the cob. The ear is picked while the endosperm is in the "milk stage" so that the kernels are still tender. Ears of corn are steamed or boiled, usually without their green husks, or roasted with them. The husk leaves are in any case removed before serving.
Corn on the cob is normally eaten while still warm. It is boiled or grilled. It is then often seasoned with salt and buttered before serving. Some diners use specialized skewers, thrust into the ends of the cob, to hold the ear while eating without touching the hot and sticky kernels.
Usage examples of "corn on the cob".
We have fresh corn on the cob, potatoes Jaspers -- that's with cheese sauce, very good, and we have hot-house strawberries for dessert.
The corn on the cob was too old, the kernels wrinkled like knuckles.
Some liked it, some didn't, but the racks of ribs disappeared, along with the pile of corn on the cob.
You sure can't eat catfish without teeth, much less corn on the cob.
In addition to the corn on the cob and cornbread, Cally had cooked wheat bread, a creamed green-bean casserole and new potatoes, all of which had been eaten.
His mother was still under the impression that he liked corn on the cob and hated Brussels sprouts.
He helped me barbecue those half a dozen corn on the cob last month, remember, James?
Red and yellow tomatoes, cucumbers and onions in vinegar, butter beans, snap beans, peas, okra, squash, boiled potatoes, corn on the cob, and always hot corn bread.
Dinner was at a big dining room table that was generously covered in platters of meat, bowls of mashed potatoes and corn on the cob, a teetering plate of bread, and a tub of butter.
She was up to her elbows in corn on the cob and she couldn't have been happier.
The food was excellent--medium-rare sirloins, corn on the cob, okra and tomatoes, creamed scalloped potatoes, a cucumber and onion salad, with a chocolate pudding dessert topped with real whipped cream, not sprayed from a can--and I ate every bit of it, including four hot biscuits with butter (my two, and Berenice's two).
Meat was turning on spits in roasting pits, which were also filled with freshly picked corn on the cob and newly dug potatoes.