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Cod or COD may refer to:

Fish

• Cod, fish of the genus Gadus, widely used for food
  • Various fish in the family Gadidae and the order Gadiformes are called cods, usually with a qualifier (see Cod for list)
  • Various other fish, not necessarily closely related, are also called cod or marketed as cod (see Cod for list)
  • Dried and salted cod, a common preserved form of cod

Geographic locations and institutions

• Cape Cod, Massachusetts; see also Cape Cod (disambiguation)
• College of DuPage, the Midwest's largest single-campus two-year community college
• College of the Desert, a community college located in Palm Desert, California
• Democratic Republic of the Congo (country code COD)
• Yellowstone Regional Airport in Cody, Wyoming (airport code COD)
• Cod stronghold, a German stronghold on the D-day beaches in Normandy

Commerce

• Collect on Delivery, also known as cash on delivery, a form of financial transaction.
• Cancellation of debt income
• Certificate of deposit

Media

• Call of Duty (series), a series of video games
  • Call of Duty, the first game in the above series
• Canadian Oxford Dictionary, usually abbreviated CanOD
• Concise Oxford Dictionary
• C.O.D. (film), a 1983 comedy film
• The Va Dinci Cod, a parody of The Da Vinci Code

Music

• Cod Music, an Icelandic record company
• Circle of Dust, an Industrial Metal band
• C.O.D., a song by AC/DC, from their album For Those About to Rock We Salute You
• C.O.D., a different song by Mark Mulcahy
• C.O.D., another song by Delbert McClinton, performed as Delbert & Glen on their self-titled debut album (1972)
• Cash on Delivery, a Ray Cash album
• C.O.D. (album), an album by Saint Vitus

Science

• Cyclooctadiene, a chemical compound
  • 1,5-Cyclooctadiene, a specific variation of Cyclooctadiene
• Chemical oxygen demand
• Catastrophic optical damage, a failure mode of diode lasers
• Cause of death

Other

• Carrier onboard delivery
• The ICAO airline designator for Concordavia Limited, Ukraine
• USS Cod (SS-224), a United States Navy submarine
• Cod War (1958-1976), a series of fishing disputes between Iceland and the United Kingdom
• The Cods, one of two factions in the Hook and Cod wars (Holland, 1350-1590)
• The Sacred Cod of Massachusetts, a carving of a codfish that hangs in the chamber of the Massachusetts House of Representatives.
• Cod philosophy, a pejorative term for naive philosophy
• The Cult of Domesticity, a common perception of women's roles in society

• A Germanic word for "bag", hence Middle English term for the male genitals, hence:
  • codpiece, an item of clothing covering the genitals
  • codswallop, nonsense

See also

• Codex, abbreviated Cod

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