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cosh; kosh
noun
a bludgeon, a truncheon UK, 1869- Miss Hope-Baldwin was a private woman who was terrified of intrusion and kept a cabinet full of weapons, including an axe, crossbow, machete, sword stick, cosh and an air rifle and two revolvers, the court was told. — Guardian, 21 January 2003
▶ under the cosh
at a disadvantage; under control UK- — Frank Norman, Bang to Rights, 1958
- [H]e’s got it, the loyals, and the punters, right under the cosh[.] — Derek Raymond (Robin Cook), The Crust on its Uppers, p. 56, 1962
- Poll result puts [Ian] Duncan Smith under the cosh as Tories slump to a four-year low, modernisers and traditionalists are united in their urge to hold leader to account. — Guardian, 18 December 2002
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