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  • noun Plural form of kob.

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Examples

  • We know what lack of sleep does to her, maybe we should give her that day off, don't want her sleepy with that much power at hand. kobs

    In crucial state, Clinton pushes Midwestern values 2008

  • I would forgo the beers and let the losers sip and revel in their American misfortune. kathy kobs

    On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009

  • "I do not know exactly -- several thousand kobs, however."

    Escape on Venus Burroughs, Edgar Rice, 1875-1950 1963

  • "Then my country is ten million four hundred thousand kobs from Brokol," I said, doing some lightning mental calculating.

    Escape on Venus Burroughs, Edgar Rice, 1875-1950 1963

  • "Did you not tell Ka-at that your country lay ten million four hundred thousand kobs from Brokol?" she demanded.

    Escape on Venus Burroughs, Edgar Rice, 1875-1950 1963

  • The Amtorians divide the circumference of a circle into a thousand parts to arrive at their hita, or degree; and the kob is one tenth of a degree of longitude at the equator (or what the Amtorians call The Small Circle), roughly about two and a half earth miles; therefore a thousand kobs would be about two thousand five hundred miles.

    Lost on Venus Burroughs, Edgar Rice, 1875-1950 1935

  • Hargis4Congress wrote: We should have contracted with other states to house their overflow, we just sent 10 prisoners back to Az. and closed Walsenburg prison at the cost of 200 jobs and a possible dying Colorado town, and those lost kobs will cost what we are saving in social programs.

    Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local Hargis4Congress 2010

  • Hargis4Congress wrote: We should have contracted with other states to house their overflow, we just sent 10 prisoners back to Az. and closed Walsenburg prison at the cost of 200 jobs and a possible dying Colorado town, and those lost kobs will cost what we are saving in social programs.

    Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local Hargis4Congress 2010

  • We should have contracted with other states to house their overflow, we just sent 10 prisoners back to Az. and closed Walsenburg prison at the cost of 200 jobs and a possible dying Colorado town, and those lost kobs will cost what we are saving in social programs.

    Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local Hargis4Congress 2010

  • Hargis4Congress wrote: We should have contracted with other states to house their overflow, we just sent 10 prisoners back to Az. and closed Walsenburg prison at the cost of 200 jobs and a possible dying Colorado town, and those lost kobs will cost what we are saving in social programs.

    Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local Hargis4Congress 2010

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