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COBBLERS

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Dictionary entry overview: What does cobblers mean?

• COBBLERS (noun)
The noun COBBLERS has 2 senses:

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

Familiarity information: COBBLERS used as a noun is rare.

Dictionary entry details

• COBBLERS (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Nonsense

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Context example:

I think that is a load of cobblers

Hypernyms ("cobblers" is a kind of...):

bunk; hokum; meaninglessness; nonsense; nonsensicality (a message that seems to convey no meaning)

Domain region:

Britain; GB; Great Britain; U.K.; UK; United Kingdom; United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (a monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles; divided into England and Scotland and Wales and Northern Ireland)

Sense 2

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Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Hypernyms ("cobblers" is a kind of...):

ball; ballock; bollock; egg; nut; orchis; testicle; testis (one of the two male reproductive glands that produce spermatozoa and secrete androgens)

Domain region:

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