Yob

Quick meaning: Yob is a noun meaning (derogatory, chiefly UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, slang) A person who engages in antisocial behaviour or drunkenness.

Meaning

(derogatory, chiefly UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, slang) A person who engages in antisocial behaviour or drunkenness.

More Meanings

1. (obsolete, costermongers, back slang) A boy.

Example Sentences

And you bet that each gal, not to mention each yob, Didn't care how much ooftish it cost 'em per nob.

Yes, it's holiday time again for British yobs – and the rest of us can flee to those parts of Abroad which the louts ignore, or just cringe in shame at home.

But while doing 70mph on the A1, a hooded yob threw rock^([sic – meaning a rock]) from a grass verge onto the windscreen of the family’s Jeep, causing it to swerve.

Three local yobs have also joined, but they have not reckoned on a redoubtable Conductor and two local revenue protection officers who soon escort them off the train!

Word Forms

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Synonyms for yob

Depending on context, synonyms include hooligan, tearaway, chav, yobbo, charva, bully.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include yobbo, yobo, hooligan, ruffian, roughneck, bully.

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