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noun kɒʃkɑʃ British informal A thick, heavy stick or bar used as a weapon. （用作武器的）短棍；短棒 the defendants deny having a self-loading pistol and a telescopic cosh Example sentencesExamples - Masked men armed with a machete and cosh burst into a busy town centre amusement arcade and forced terrified staff to open the safe and hand over a large amount of cash.
- It houses thousands of weapons, including guns and ammunition, knives, knuckledusters, coshes, crossbows and swords.
- He said he had been threatened with guns, knives and hammers and attacked with a cosh in the past.
- He said: ‘We want to take away the potential for knives, coshes and an array of other items to be used in crime.’
- He has also been fined and jailed for having weapons including a pistol, coshes and saw-blades.
- The cosh and the teargas, he said, were left over from his evening job as a bouncer, and he had just forgotten to unpack them before travelling.
- Some were armed with bottles and others brandished weapons including coshes or iron bars, a screwdriver and a knife.
- Under the settee in the lounge officers also found a machete and two wooden coshes.
- But there is no doubt that my client used the cosh and probably struck Mr Bourne about the head.
- A jury convicted him in May of illegally possessing the gas, a lock knife and a cosh at the airport.
- It was claimed in court that he probably struck the first blow with an extended cosh.
- Officers acting on a tip-off swooped on a gang of robbers, believed to be armed with knives and coshes, just after they had held up a security van.
- He is also charged with possession of two coshes.
- With respect, the use of a knife as opposed to the use of a cosh in their minds is clearly something quite different.
- When the lockers were later searched coshes, knives, bayonets, and swords were found.
- Weapons wanted in the amnesty include those with a blade or sharp point, such as knives and machetes, CS gas canisters, coshes and knuckle dusters.
- ‘They brought coshes, lead piping and cut-down billiard cues with them.’
- More than 260 knives, coshes, guns and bayonets went on show yesterday as West Yorkshire Police revealed the potentially lethal array of weapons handed in during an amnesty.
Synonyms club, bludgeon, stick, truncheon, baton, blackthorn, mace, bat
verbkɒʃkɑʃ [with object]British informal Hit (someone) on the head with a cosh. （对准头部）棍击；棒击 the other coshed him and he fell unconscious Example sentencesExamples - Each member brought a particular skill to the gang, which successfully robbed the night mail train to London, causing serious head injuries when they coshed the train driver, who never fully recovered.
- The men rushed into the shop, coshed the manager, and attacked Mr Chapman and another assistant.
- Detectives in Accrington today renewed their appeal for information about a robbery in which a shopkeeper was believed to be coshed with a gun.
- I always tend to choose chairs which allow me to see the whole room and that I feel uncomfortable standing on the street with my back exposed in case someone comes and coshes me.
- If D coshes V and he dies, D would be liable for murder as he intended to cause grievous bodily harm.
- The columnist coshed me on the back of the head and, while I was out, dumped me in the uncharted territory of his foreign policy mistakes.
- A conspiratorial hush proceeds to cosh the masses, precipitating a muffled ripple of applause as the Mayor and his entourage take to the stand.
- He yelled before he was coshed on the head, by a blunt object.
- Sorry, it feels like somebody coshed me from behind.
- They threatened to cosh him if he refused to hand over the phone.
- Fourteen years after this was made, the idea of robberies from trains, and indeed coshing drivers - coolly omitted from the professor's sophistical account of what harm his thieves have really done - lost a smidgen of its innocence.
- He was coshed over the head by two balaclava clad men who made off with the money.
Synonyms hit over the head, hit on the head, hit, strike, buffet, bang, knock, thwack, slug, welt, cuff, punch, smash
Phrasesinformal Under pressure; in a difficult situation. car dealers are under the cosh right now Example sentencesExamples - Our defence has been under the cosh, leaking goals.
- However, not all suppliers are under the cosh or close to bankruptcy.
- The visitors are really under the cosh at the moment.
- Shell-shocked Derby spent the remainder of the first-half under the cosh.
- He wrote sympathetically about highlanders under the cosh from rapacious landlords.
- In a game dominated by the weather Portarlington were under the cosh for most of the game.
- We are really under the cosh in terms of costs.
- There are also well-grounded suspicions that they are used for internal repression to keep the extremist factions under the cosh.
- They are not the only public sector workers who are under the cosh.
- The psychological effect on farmers, already economically under the cosh, was frightening.
Synonyms hard-pressed, troubled, in difficulties, under pressure, under stress, with one's back to the wall, in a tight corner, in a tight spot
OriginMid 19th century: of unknown origin. Rhymesawash, Bosch, bosh, brioche, cloche, cohosh, dosh, Foch, galosh, gosh, josh, mosh, nosh, posh, quash, slosh, splosh, squash, swash, tosh, wash abbreviationkɒʃkɒˈseɪtʃkɑʃ Mathematics OriginFrom cos2 + -h for hyperbolic. Compare with coth. nounkɑʃkäSH British informal A thick heavy stick or bar used as a weapon; a bludgeon. （用作武器的）短棍；短棒 Example sentencesExamples - With respect, the use of a knife as opposed to the use of a cosh in their minds is clearly something quite different.
- He said he had been threatened with guns, knives and hammers and attacked with a cosh in the past.
- He has also been fined and jailed for having weapons including a pistol, coshes and saw-blades.
- Weapons wanted in the amnesty include those with a blade or sharp point, such as knives and machetes, CS gas canisters, coshes and knuckle dusters.
- Under the settee in the lounge officers also found a machete and two wooden coshes.
- But there is no doubt that my client used the cosh and probably struck Mr Bourne about the head.
- The cosh and the teargas, he said, were left over from his evening job as a bouncer, and he had just forgotten to unpack them before travelling.
- He said: ‘We want to take away the potential for knives, coshes and an array of other items to be used in crime.’
- Masked men armed with a machete and cosh burst into a busy town centre amusement arcade and forced terrified staff to open the safe and hand over a large amount of cash.
- He is also charged with possession of two coshes.
- A jury convicted him in May of illegally possessing the gas, a lock knife and a cosh at the airport.
- It was claimed in court that he probably struck the first blow with an extended cosh.
- It houses thousands of weapons, including guns and ammunition, knives, knuckledusters, coshes, crossbows and swords.
- More than 260 knives, coshes, guns and bayonets went on show yesterday as West Yorkshire Police revealed the potentially lethal array of weapons handed in during an amnesty.
- When the lockers were later searched coshes, knives, bayonets, and swords were found.
- Officers acting on a tip-off swooped on a gang of robbers, believed to be armed with knives and coshes, just after they had held up a security van.
- ‘They brought coshes, lead piping and cut-down billiard cues with them.’
- Some were armed with bottles and others brandished weapons including coshes or iron bars, a screwdriver and a knife.
Synonyms club, bludgeon, stick, truncheon, baton, blackthorn, mace, bat
verbkɑʃkäSH [with object]British informal Hit (someone) on the head with a cosh. （对准头部）棍击；棒击 Example sentencesExamples - He yelled before he was coshed on the head, by a blunt object.
- I always tend to choose chairs which allow me to see the whole room and that I feel uncomfortable standing on the street with my back exposed in case someone comes and coshes me.
- They threatened to cosh him if he refused to hand over the phone.
- Each member brought a particular skill to the gang, which successfully robbed the night mail train to London, causing serious head injuries when they coshed the train driver, who never fully recovered.
- The columnist coshed me on the back of the head and, while I was out, dumped me in the uncharted territory of his foreign policy mistakes.
- Sorry, it feels like somebody coshed me from behind.
- The men rushed into the shop, coshed the manager, and attacked Mr Chapman and another assistant.
- Detectives in Accrington today renewed their appeal for information about a robbery in which a shopkeeper was believed to be coshed with a gun.
- If D coshes V and he dies, D would be liable for murder as he intended to cause grievous bodily harm.
- He was coshed over the head by two balaclava clad men who made off with the money.
- A conspiratorial hush proceeds to cosh the masses, precipitating a muffled ripple of applause as the Mayor and his entourage take to the stand.
- Fourteen years after this was made, the idea of robberies from trains, and indeed coshing drivers - coolly omitted from the professor's sophistical account of what harm his thieves have really done - lost a smidgen of its innocence.
Synonyms hit over the head, hit on the head, hit, strike, buffet, bang, knock, thwack, slug, welt, cuff, punch, smash
OriginMid 19th century: of unknown origin. abbreviationkɑʃkäSH Mathematics OriginFrom cos + -h for hyperbolic. Compare with coth. |