From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishcoshcosh1 /kɒʃ $ kɑːʃ/ noun [countable] 1 PMWSCCa heavy weapon in the shape of a short thick pipe2 → under the cosh
Examples from the Corpus
cosh• 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.coshcosh2 verb [transitive] HITto hit someone with a cosh→ See Verb table 