- cash on delivery
- (in the US) collect on delivery
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COD abbreviation for
cod1 /kɑd/USA pronunciation
n., pl. (esp. when thought of as a group) -cod, (esp. for kinds or species) -cods.
C.O.D. or c.o.d., an abbreviation of:
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2026- Fish a fish found in cool, N Atlantic waters, caught for food:[countable]caught a cod.
- Food its flesh, eaten as food:[uncountable]a dish of baked cod.
C.O.D. or c.o.d., an abbreviation of:
- Businesscash, or collect, on delivery.
cod1
(kod),USA pronunciation n., pl. ([esp. collectively]) -cod, ([esp. referring to two or more kinds or species]) -cods.
cod2 (kod),USA pronunciation n.
Cod (kod),USA pronunciation n.
COD.,
C.O.D., [Com.]
- Fishany of several soft-rayed food fishes of the family Gadidae, esp. Gadus morhua, of cool, North Atlantic waters.
- Fisha closely related fish, Gadus macrocephalus, of the North Pacific.
- Fishany of several unrelated fishes, as rockfishes of the genus Sebastes.
- Middle English origin, originally uncertain 1325–75
cod2 (kod),USA pronunciation n.
- Slang Terms(vulgar). testicle.
- bef. 1000; Middle English; Old English codd; akin to Old Norse koddi pillow
Cod (kod),USA pronunciation n.
- Place Names Cape. See Cape Cod.
COD.,
- codex.
C.O.D., [Com.]
- Businesscash, or collect, on delivery (payment to be made when delivered to the purchaser).
- 1855–60, American.
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Cod n
- See Cape Cod
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cod /kɒd/ n ( pl cod, cods)
- any of the gadoid food fishes of the genus Gadus, esp G. morhua (or G. callarias), which occurs in the North Atlantic and has a long body with three rounded dorsal fins: family Gadidae. They are also a source of cod-liver oil
- Austral any of various unrelated Australian fish, such as the Murray cod
cod /kɒd/ n
- Brit US dialect a pod or husk
- an obsolete word for scrotum
cod /kɒd/ vb (cods, codding, codded) (transitive)
- Brit Irish slang to make fun of; tease
- Brit Irish slang to play a trick on; fool
- Brit Irish slang a hoax or trick
'COD' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway
- battered
- brandade
- brewis
- Cape Cod
- cash on delivery
- cod-act
- codfish
- cod-liver oil
- codpiece
- fish and brewis
- haddock
- kabeljou
- Murray cod
- peasecod
- pod
- Provincetown
- rock cod
- scrod
- steak
- stockfish
- taramasalata
- teleost
- vitamin D
- Alaska cod
- banker
- blackcod
- black fog
- bottom fish
- burbot
- cape
- Cape Cod Bay
- Cape Cod Canal
- Cape Cod lighter
- coddle
- code
- codify
- coding triplet
- codline
- codling
- codling moth
- cultus
- forced coding
- gadid
- gaff-topsail catfish
- godet
- kidney
- lingcod
- lutefisk
- Pacific Cod