Definition of "cobber" [cobber]

• Australian A pal; a buddy. (noun)

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• "Miss Kinevey-Gump tossed the loaves to Mr. Clary, who slapped them down and then used a tool called a cobber's thumb to push the loaves into each other."
• "You also know, whatever the tourist books say, that no one says "cobber"."
• ""cobber," who picked up a bomb and blew on it to make it light; "all at once it blew his ---- head off -- Gorblime! you would have laughed!""