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The top sheet of a bed.

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#1·Apr 27, 2026

The top sheet of a bed.

The captain signalled his best fielder from short leg to cover.
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  • “Does this look like a album cover?”

    — r/GenAlpha· May 2026
  • “going to It was a cover, right?”

  • “>> It was a two live crew cover face down.”

  • “>> She doesn't start with the cover. I'm”

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#2·Apr 27, 2026

The front and back of a book, magazine, CD package, etc.

We need to set another cover for the Smith party.
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  • “Is Trump dying? If so, how quickly? Why does the White House lie/cover up his serious health issues? youtu.be/RYHwCrUqMxg”

    — Bluesky· May 2026
  • “Absolute Evil #1 Blank Variant Cover (5/52) I drew my absolute evil, emo, early 20’s gundam wing loving self to decorate my wall with. Done in ink and markers. #blankvariantcover #sketchbookcover”

    — Bluesky· May 2026
  • “Jeepers. It was Julie Browns reporting where I found out how bad it was around the handling of Epstein, the levels of evil to cover that up.”

    — Bluesky· May 2026
  • “This is basically where I am too. "TERF" had a purpose when it was referring to a specific weird niche of radfems. But that niche was always pretty marginal to broader anti-trans politics, and the latter trying to cynically adopt the former as a cover shouldn't blind us to that.”

    — Bluesky· May 2026
  • “New issue of Auto Italia magazine hits the shelves this week. Cover story is my Alfa Romeo GTV6 twin-test, driving a rare South African 3.0 and a one-off UK restomod built by Lombarda.”

    — Bluesky· May 2026
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#3·Apr 27, 2026

(uncountable) Area or situation which screens a person or thing from view.

There's a $15 cover tonight.
Origin: From , borrowed from (modern ), from , from , from co- + operiō. Displaced native and bethecchen (from , beþeccan), (from ), (from ), (from ). According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the original sense of the verb and noun cover was “hide from view” as in its cognate covert. Except in the limited sense of “cover again”, the word recover is unrelated and is cognate with recuperate. Cognate with and. Origin information sourced from Wiktionary contributors (CC BY-SA 4.0).
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  • “Super stellar cover, Tyler! Loved every minute of it~”

    — Bluesky· May 2026
  • “He is certainly doing all he can to cover that tiny hand”

    — Bluesky· May 2026
  • “>> It was a two live crew cover face down.”

  • “going to It was a cover, right?”

  • “>> She doesn't start with the cover. I'm”

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