Gob

/ɡɒb/ · noun

Meaning

(countable) A lump of soft or sticky material..

Definitions by Sense

1. (countable) A lump of soft or sticky material.
2. (uncountable, slang) Saliva or phlegm.
3. (countable, US, regional) A whoopie pie.
4. To gather into a lump.
5. (slang, ambitransitive) To spit, especially to spit phlegm.
6. (UK, Commonwealth, Ireland, slang) The mouth.
7. (uncountable, mining) Waste material in old mine workings, goaf.
8. (mining, intransitive) To pack away waste material in order to support the walls of the mine.

Example Sentences

1952, The Glass Industry, Volume 33, Ashlee Publishing Company, page 309, These inventors have discovered that gobs may be fed at widely spaced times without allowing the glass to flow during the interval but instead flushes out the chilled glass which accumulates during the dwell.

He spat a big ball of gob on to the pavement.

1997 March, William G. Tapply, How to Catch a Trout on a Sandwich, Field & Stream, page 60, I liked to gob up two or three worms on a snelled hook, pinch three or four split shot onto the leader, and plunk it into the dark water.

He′s always stuffing his gob with fast food.

Oi, you, shut your gob!

She's got such a gob on her – she's always gossiping about someone or other.

Now washing you will be like washing a goth / All that black lipstick around their gobs

This consisted in wheeling gob back to the most distant part of the stope and filling up the sets right up to the roof.

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Word Forms

• gobs
• gobbing
• gobbed

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