The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 3 letter word COB , but the solution may also be COBS which is one of the most recent solution (2025 in New York Times).
Corn waste crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
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COB | 50 % | 3 |
COBS | 50 % | 4 |
Why may COBS be the right solution?
The word "COBS" refers to the waste left after corn has been eaten or processed. It is a common term for this type of corn residue, making it the correct answer to the clue "Corn waste."
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Corn waste
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- cob
- shack
- mush
- bin
- can
- corncob
- cpb
- floss
- slop
- bangle
- bins
- fritter
Crossword Answer definitions
COB noun- A male swan.
- A corncob.
- A round, often crusty roll or loaf of bread.
- A building material consisting of clay, sand, straw, water, and earth, similar to adobe; also called cobb, rammed earth or pisé.
- A horse having a stout body and short legs.
- A gull, especially the black-backed gull (Larus marinus); also spelled cobb.
- Any of the gold and silver coins that were minted in the Spanish Empire and valued in reales or escudos, such as the piece of eight—especially those which were crudely struck and irregularly shaped.
- A Spanish coin formerly current in Ireland, worth about four shillings and sixpence.
- One who is eminent, great, large, or rich.
- A spider.
- A small fish, the miller's thumb.
- A large fish, especially the kabeljou (variant spelling of kob).
- The head of a herring.
- The top or head of anything.
- A lump or piece of anything, usually of a somewhat large size, as of coal, or stone.
- A punishment consisting of blows inflicted on the buttocks with a strap or a flat piece of wood.
- A cylinder with pins in it, encoding music to be played back mechanically by a barrel organ.
- A person of mixed black and white ancestry, especially a griffe; a mulatto.
- To construct using mud blocks or to seal a wall using mud or an artificial equivalent.
- Of growing corn, to have the heads mature into corncobs.
- The nut of the common hazel (Corylus avellana); hazelnut.
- A specific cultivated variety of hazelnut, also known as the Kentish cobnut.
- A game played by children with nuts.
- To beat with a flat instrument; to paddle.
- (Northern UK, possibly colloquial) To throw, chuck, lob.
- To chip off unwanted pieces of stone, so as to form a desired shape or improve the quality of mineral ore.
- Initialism of contingency operating base.
- Acronym of chief of boat.
- Close of Business, usually referring to a deadline for an office in another time zone.
- Coordination of Benefits
- Chairman of the Board
- Chip on Board
- A cobblestone.
- A particle from 64 to 256 mm in diameter, following the Wentworth scale.
- Small flat-bottomed fishing boat suitable for launching from a beach, found on the north-east coast of England and in Scotland.
More crossword clues leading to the same solutions
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More clues leading to the result COB
- Corn eater's leftover
- Male swan
- Kernel holder
- Corn-eater's throwaway
- Pen pal
- Thing held at a corn festival
- Middle ear part?
- Barbecue discard
- Barbecue throwaway
- Corn holder