corn on the cob

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corn on the cob (usually uncountable, plural corns on the cob)

1. Cooked ears of corn (maize, specifically sweet corn).

   Synonyms: butterpop, cornstick, long maize, pole corn, sweet pole

   Hypernyms: corn, maize, sweet corn

   Hyponyms: cobette, roastnear

   • 2013, Henriette Lazaridis Power, The Clover House: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: Ballantine Books Trade Paperbacks, →ISBN, page 405:

     […] we ate grilled corn on the cob from street vendors in the colonnades.

   • 2014, Shani Krebs, Dragons & Butterflies: Sentenced to Die, Choosing to Live, Johannesburg: Jonathan Ball Publishers, →ISBN, page 621:

     Every day I ordered a salad, two corns on the cob, and some vegetable stirfry (which wasn’t too bad, but also had to be rinsed), but the bulk of my meal would be fruit.

• corncob