COBRA - Definition and Overview

The acronym COBRA can have several meanings:

1. In the United States, the acronym COBRA usually refers to health insurance provided under the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1986.
2. In the United Kingdom, the acronym COBRA, formed from the words Cabinet Office Briefing Room A, is a term used to describe a top-level committee that co-ordinates government action during an emergency.
3. The COBRA Organization is the fictional nemesis of the GI Joe team, billed as "a ruthless terrorist organization".
4. COBRA is also a series of ultra-violent spy novels written in the 1970s by Joseph R. Rosenberger.

There are other meanings for cobra.

1. A post-World War II European avant-garde movement (COBRA), whose name is derived from the initials of the members' home cities: Copenhagen, Brussels, Amsterdam)