Cobb salad
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- noun
- /kɑb ˈsæləd/
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ensalada Cobb
- I ordered a Cobb salad with chicken, avocado, and blue cheese for lunch.
- Cobb salad with grilled chicken
- order a Cobb salad
- makes an excellent Cobb salad
Well, actually, she said she wanted that, you know, Cobb salad, extra blue, blue cheese.
- Well, actually, she said she wanted that, you know, Cobb salad, extra blue, blue cheese.
Examples
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Cobb salad, no eggs.
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Cobb salad, no bacon.
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Oh yeah, I ordered a a Cobb salad so I have this.
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I want a Cobb salad, just...
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Well, actually, she said she wanted that, you know, Cobb salad, extra blue, blue cheese.
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Ritual Cobb salad lunch tomorrow.
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Can I interest you in something like a nice cobb salad or papaya?
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I will have a Cobb salad, no bleu cheese.
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Lunch: Cobb salad with vinaigrette dressing, diet coke.
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I usually don't make my Cobb salads with hard-boiled eggs, but I got a special request from my fiancé to add them this weekend.
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How Filling
Surface Forms
Morphology
Cobb + salad
‘Cobb’ is a proper name with no lexical meaning, so a learner who knows only the constituents will understand this as a type or variety of salad but cannot infer the specific ingredients or recipe. The pattern 'X salad' is cross-linguistically common and signals a named variety (partial compositionality), giving partial but not full transparency.
Etymology
Cobb salad may come from a restaurant owner named Robert Cobb in Los Angeles. One popular story says he mixed chopped lettuce, chicken, bacon, egg, tomato, avocado, and blue cheese together on his kitchen counter as a quick meal, so the salad was 'named after' him and now the name means this particular mix of ingredients today.