gob
1a mass or lump.
gobs, Informal. a large quantity: gobs of money.
Also called goaf .Mining. waste or barren material.
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1Words Nearby gob
Other definitions for gob (2 of 4)
a sailor, especially a seaman in the U.S. Navy.
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2Other definitions for gob (3 of 4)
the mouth.
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3How to use gob in a sentence
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.
An ‘acoustic camera’ shows joining the right boy band boosts a frog’s sex appeal | Susan Milius | May 31, 2022 | Science NewsEach 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.
How glassblowers turn silica, soda ash, and lime into stunning works of art | Rachel Feltman | September 23, 2021 | Popular-ScienceGlass comes out of the furnace with no color, so artists add hues to the clear gob they draw from the forge.
How glassblowers turn silica, soda ash, and lime into stunning works of art | Rachel Feltman | September 23, 2021 | Popular-ScienceA millimeter-sized gob of mucus beads up on a larvacean’s head.
Larvaceans’ underwater ‘snot palaces’ boast elaborate plumbing | Susan Milius | June 15, 2020 | Science News“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.
Will Arnett on ‘The Millers,’ ‘Arrested Development,’ and More | Jason Lynch | October 2, 2013 | THE DAILY BEAST
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.
Armani Goes Gaga: Giorgio Armani Intoxicated by Lady Gaga | Robin Givhan | February 6, 2011 | THE DAILY BEAST"John Greg—" Before I could articulate fully the blacksmith thrust a gob of the vile lather into my mouth.
Tramping on Life | Harry KempGazing anxiously over the fence, we heard a feeble chirp from a large gob of mud in the alley.
South American Fights and Fighters | Cyrus Townsend BradyAs 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 Skipper and the Skipped | Holman DayThe second wall lies across the valley at gob-sorg, four miles beyond our camp at Chumbi.
The Unveiling of Lhasa | Edmund Candler
British Dictionary definitions for gob (1 of 3)
/ (ɡɒb) /
a lump or chunk, esp of a soft substance
(often plural) informal 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
(intr) British informal to spit
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1British Dictionary definitions for gob (2 of 3)
/ (ɡɒb) /
US slang an enlisted ordinary seaman in the US Navy
Origin of gob
2British Dictionary definitions for gob (3 of 3)
/ (ɡɒb) /
a slang word (esp Brit) for the mouth
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