Meaning of Blob | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The section of the elite class in Washington D.C. who have moved from political or regulatory work to lobbying firms or think tanks, especially in foreign policy or on the behalf of corporations.
   US, derogatory
2. Alternative spelling of BLOB.
   alt-of, alternative
3. Acronym of binary large object.
   abbreviation, acronym, alt-of
4. A shapeless or amorphous mass; a vague shape or amount, especially of a liquid or semisolid substance; a clump, group or collection that lacks definite shape.
5. A large cloud of gas.
6. The civil service and other public bodies, perceived as prone to groupthink and acting as an obstacle to government action; the deep state.
   UK, derogatory
7. Ellipsis of extended Lyman-Alpha blob, a huge body of gas that may be the precursor to a galaxy.
   abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis
8. A large mass of relatively warm water in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of North America that was detected in 2013 and continued to spread throughout 2014 and 2015.
9. A bubble; a bleb.
   dialectal
10. A small freshwater fish (Cottus bairdii); the miller's thumb.
11. The partially inflated air bag used in the sport of blobbing.
12. A score of zero.
    slang
13. Physarum polycephalum, a bright yellow acellular slime mold known for solving puzzles, making decisions, etc. without a nervous system.
14. An extremely morbidly obese person, to the point of most of their body being composed of fat and nothing else.

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Examples

“Only the outermost blob on either side in map 2 displays misalignment.”

“It was a colourful vase with red and white hoops on the lid, and red bands above and below the main frieze. These bands also carry a metope pattern in white of triple lines and blobs, which can just be distinguished on the photographs.”

“But there, on the very top, is a hollow full of water, with a sandy bottom; with a blob of jelly stuck to the side, and some mussels.”

“A gentleman named W. Shakespeare scored a blob in the Worcestershire v. Lancashire match. We understand that he got out because the ball pitched on a "damned spot."”

“I've added a BLOB so that we can store pictures.”

“Mr Cummings explains his loathing for the blob in his long and entertaining blog. He argues that it is made up of “grotesque incompetents”[…]”

“Rising numbers of Tory MPs believe that Truss was the first prime minister to be intentionally deposed by the 'Blob' — the increasingly partisan quangocrats, civil servants and other key figures in Left-leaning institutions who seem determined to undermine the elected government.”

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