corncob

Etymology

corn + cob. The Internet slang sense emerged from a 2011 tweet by Weird Twitter personality dril in which a man furiously denies being owned as he transforms into a corncob.

noun

1. The central cylindrical core of an ear of corn (maize) on which the kernels are attached in rows.
   London is like a shelled corncob on the Derby day, and there is not a clerk who could raise the money to hire a saddle with an old hack under it that can sit down on his office-stool the next day without wincing. 1858, Oliver Wendell Holmes, “The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table”, in The “Breakfast-Table” Series, George Routledge and Sons, published 1882, page 23
   Six years of persistent research at the Bureau of Chemistry of the Department of Agriculture, has resulted in establishing the fact that a number of interesting and useful by-products can be derived from the humble corncob. 1922, “Corncob Seen as Source of New Industry”, in Henry Haven Windsor, editor, Popular Mechanics, volume XXXVIII, page 765
   He bit into a corncob, and Chisom watched him munch with his mouth open, his jaws working the corn like a mini grinding machine. 2009, Chika Unigwe, On Black Sisters Street, Random House,, page 32

verb

1. (intransitive, of turbines and rotor blades) To disintegrate by the blades becoming severed from the axis
2. (transitive, US, Internet slang) To defeat (someone) who then refuses to admit defeat.
   Do you enjoy being corncobbed? 18 July 2017, Jeremy Gordon, “CNN’s Most Cynical Pundit Got Mercilessly Owned in a Reddit AMA”, in SPIN
   Trump had lost but was denying that this was the case. He had been corncobbed. 4 September 2017, Amelia Tait, “The internet dictionary: what does it mean to be corncobbed?”, in The New Statesmen
   Distracted cops, rude asteroids and the corncobbing of Andrew Koenig 2021, Daniel Hill, "The Big Mad: Missed Connections", Riverfront Times, 24 March 2021 - 30 March 2021, page 11