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gob
1[ gob ]
noun
- a mass or lump.
- gobs, Informal. a large quantity:
gobs of money.
- Also called goaf. Mining. waste or barren material.
gob
2[ gob ]
noun
- a sailor, especially a seaman in the U.S. Navy.
gob
3[ gob ]
noun
- the mouth.
gob
4[ gob ]
verb (used without object)
gob
1/ ɡɒb /
gob
2/ ɡɒb /
noun
- a lump or chunk, esp of a soft substance
- informal.often plural a great quantity or amount
- mining
- waste material such as clay, shale, etc
- a worked-out area in a mine often packed with this
- a lump of molten glass used to make a piece of glassware
- informal.a globule of spittle or saliva
verb
- informal.intr to spit
gob
3/ ɡɒb /
noun
- slang.an enlisted ordinary seaman in the US Navy
Word History and Origins
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Origin of gob4
Word History and Origins
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Example Sentences
As a sign that this might be true outside the lab also, researchers typically found more of the jelly-gob egg masses, signs of mating success, floating in pools where choruses kept more consistent pitches.
Each project begins with the artist inserting the far end of a blowpipe into the furnace and rolling it back and forth until a gob—it’s actually called that—of glass forms.
Glass comes out of the furnace with no color, so artists add hues to the clear gob they draw from the forge.
A millimeter-sized gob of mucus beads up on a larvacean’s head.
“After Gob, I felt like there were a lot of jobs that I took where people wanted me to emulate or copy that performance,” he says.
For the record, the best three episodes deal with Gob, Tobias, and Buster, and it's not even close.
The experience left the septuagenarian designer sounding positively gob-smacked.
"John Greg—" Before I could articulate fully the blacksmith thrust a gob of the vile lather into my mouth.
Gazing anxiously over the fence, we heard a feeble chirp from a large gob of mud in the alley.
As might give me the chanst as I wants, but, by gob, it's a regular chouse.
You jest think of a lovin', trustin', and confidin' woman gettin' holt of a gob of p'isen like that!
The second wall lies across the valley at Gob-sorg, four miles beyond our camp at Chumbi.
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