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1. Payable by the recipient on delivery
   "a COD parcel"
   - collect
    
2. [Brit] Fraudulent; having a misleading appearance
   - bogus, fake, phony, phoney

1. The vessel that contains the seeds of a plant (not the seeds themselves)
   - pod, seedcase
    
2. Lean white flesh of important North Atlantic food fish; usually baked or poached
   - codfish
    
3. Major food fish of Arctic and cold-temperate waters
   - codfish

1. Fool or hoax
   "The immigrant was codded because he trusted everyone"
   - gull, dupe, slang, befool [archaic], fool, put on, take in, put one over, put one across
    
2. Harass with persistent criticism or carping
   "The children codded the new teacher"
   - tease, razz [N. Amer], rag, tantalize, tantalise [Brit], bait, taunt, twit, rally, ride [N. Amer]

1. Collecting the charges upon delivery
   "mail a package COD"
   - C.O.D., cash on delivery

Derived forms: codding, codded, cod, cods

See also: codling, counterfeit, due, imitative

Type of: bemock, betray, deceive, gadoid, gadoid fish, husk, lead astray, mock, saltwater fish

Part of: Atlantic cod, Gadus, Gadus morhua, genus Gadus

Encyclopedia: COD