| Main Entry: | Cobb salad |
| Part of Speech: | n |
| Definition: | a salad with chopped poultry, tomatoes, avocado, bacon, hard-boiled eggs, and sometimes onions and mushrooms, dressed in vinaigrette and topped with blue, Roquefort, or Gorgonzola cheese |
| Example: | The Cobb salad and the Caesar salad were the first 'main course' salads. |
| Etymology: | for Robert Cobb, the owner of Hollywood's Brown Derby restaurant where the salad was created |