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Related topics: Weapons, Crimecosh1 /kɒʃ $ kɑːʃ/ noun [countable] 1. PMWSCCa heavy weapon in the shape of a short thick pipe 〔作武器用的〕短棒n2 under the cosh British English informal in a difficult situation and under a lot of pressure A lot of people are under the cosh financially at present.Examples from the Corpuscosh• In a crisis it could have doubled as a draught excluder or, if the pub got rough, as a cosh.• The Millwall brick, for example, was a newspaper folded again and again and squashed together to form a cosh.• Guided by the sound, Dunn moved in and whacked him on the head with a spring-loaded cosh.• Everybody's under the cosh financially these days.• He was still turning when the cosh struck him behind the ear.cosh2 verb [transitive] HITto hit someone with a cosh 用短棒打→ See Verb tablecosh1 nouncosh2 verbLDOCE OnlineChinese weapon short a a in thick Corpus the shape of heavy |