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co ck|tail lounge (cocktail lounges ) N‑COUNT A cocktail lounge is a room in a hotel, restaurant, or club where you can buy alcoholic drinks. □  Let's meet in the cocktail lounge at the Hilton.

co ck|tail par|ty (cocktail parties ) N‑COUNT A cocktail party is a party, usually held in the early evening, where cocktails or other alcoholic drinks are served. People often dress quite formally for them.

co ck-up (cock-ups ) N‑COUNT If you make a cock-up of something, you ruin it by doing something wrong. [BRIT , INFORMAL , RUDE ] □ [+ of ] He was in danger of making a real cock-up of this.

cocky /kɒ ki/ (cockier , cockiest ) ADJ Someone who is cocky is so confident and sure of their abilities that they annoy other people. [INFORMAL , DISAPPROVAL ] □  He was a little bit cocky when he was about 11 because he was winning everything.

co|coa /koʊ koʊ/

1 N‑UNCOUNT Cocoa is a brown powder made from the seeds of a tropical tree. It is used in making chocolate. □  The Ivory Coast became the world's leading cocoa producer. □  …cocoa beans.

2 N‑UNCOUNT Cocoa is a hot drink made from cocoa powder and milk or water.

coco|nut /koʊ kənʌt/ (coconuts )

1 N‑COUNT A coconut is a very large nut with a hairy shell, which has white flesh and milky juice inside it. □  …the smell of roasted meats mingled with spices, coconut oil and ripe tropical fruits.

2 N‑UNCOUNT Coconut is the white flesh of a coconut. □  …desiccated coconut.

co co|nut milk N‑UNCOUNT Coconut milk is the milky juice inside coconuts.

co co|nut palm (coconut palms ) N‑COUNT A coconut palm is a tall tree on which coconuts grow.

co|coon /kəkuː n/ (cocoons , cocooning , cocooned )

1 N‑COUNT A cocoon is a covering of silky threads that the larvae of moths and other insects make for themselves before they grow into adults.

2 N‑COUNT If you are in a cocoon of something, you are wrapped up in it or surrounded by it. □ [+ of ] He stood there in a cocoon of golden light.

3 N‑COUNT If you are living in a cocoon , you are in an environment in which you feel protected and safe, and sometimes isolated from everyday life. □  You cannot live in a cocoon and overlook these facts.

4 VERB If something cocoons you from something, it protects you or isolates you from it. □ [V n + from ] There is nowhere to hide when things go wrong, no organisation to cocoon you from blame. □ [V pron-refl + in ] The playwright cocooned himself in a world of pretence. [Also V n + in ]

co|cooned /kəkuː nd/

1 ADJ [usu v-link ADJ ] If someone is cocooned in blankets or clothes, they are completely wrapped in them. □ [+ in ] She is comfortably cocooned in pillows. □  …my snugly-cocooned baby sleeping in his pram.

2 ADJ If you say that someone is cocooned , you mean that they are isolated and protected from everyday life and problems. □ [+ in ] She was cocooned in a private world of privilege. □ [+ from ] They were cocooned from the experience of poverty.

cod /kɒ d/ (cods or cod )

1 N‑VAR Cod are a type of large edible fish. ● N‑UNCOUNT Cod is this fish eaten as food. □  A Catalan speciality is to serve salt cod cold.

2 ADJ [ADJ n] You use cod to describe something which is not genuine and which is intended to deceive or amuse people by looking or sounding like the real thing. [BRIT ] □  …a cod documentary on what animals think of living in a zoo.

coda /koʊ də/ (codas )

1 N‑COUNT A coda is a separate passage at the end of something such as a book or a speech that finishes it off.

2 N‑COUNT In music, a coda is the final part of a fairly long piece of music which is added in order to finish it off in a pleasing way.