COSH

PRONUNCIATION: (kosh)

MEANING: noun: 1. A short, thick, heavy stick, used as a weapon. Also known as a truncheon, blackjack, bludgeon, etc.
2. An attack with, or as if with, such a weapon.
verb tr.: To hit with, or as if with, such a weapon.

ETYMOLOGY: From Romani kosh, from koshter (stick). Earliest documented use: 1869.
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COSHA - food that's OK to be eaten by Orthodox Bostonian Jews

COASH - what a drunken athlete calls the head of his team

COKH - a Klingon delicacy, made of live beetle larvae. Just ask Will Riker.