Meaning of gob | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Waste material in old mine workings, goaf.
   uncountable
2. A lump of soft or sticky material.
   countable
3. The mouth.
4. Saliva or phlegm.
   slang, uncountable
5. A whoopie pie.
   US, countable, regional
6. A sailor.
7. Slang. The opening in the body through which food is ingested:mouth.
8. Slang. A person engaged in sailing or working on a ship:jack (uppercase), jack-tar, mariner, navigator, sailor, sea dog, seafarer, seaman.
9. A small mass or lump.
10. often gobs Informal A large quantity: a gob of money; gobs of time.
    Informal
11. a lump or chunk, esp of a soft substance
12. (often plural) informal a great quantity or amount
    often plural
13. (Mining & Quarrying) mining a. waste material such as clay, shale, etc
    mining
14. (Ceramics) a lump of molten glass used to make a piece of glassware

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Examples

“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.”

“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.”

“Well I have taken the oath of allegiance for 4 years service anywhere in the world and am now a real 'gob' in the U. S. Navy.”

“If it weren't for the Fleet I should scarcely be able to endure it. Gobs are always amusing, as you know.”

“Full-cut, dashing "gob" slacks with back pocket.”

“1944 November, Fitting the Gob to the Job, Popular Mechanics, page 18, For the first time in history, new warship crews are virtually “prefabricated” by modern methods of fitting the gob to the job.”

“1948 June, Fred B. Barton, Mending Broken Gobs, The Rotarian, page 22, Taking a safe average of 2,000 rehabilitated young gobs a year, that′s a total of 100,000 years of salvaged manhood, a target worth shooting at.”

“To save having to enter the locks at a crawl — not seamanlike in the strong cross-winds we often experienced ― I rigged a quarter-rope as described for stopping her, in addition to a gob-rope that I could immediately haul on to convert the quarter rope into a conventional stern line to hold her alongside after we had stopped.”

“The towing point can be a bullnose up forward, a tow bitt aft, a staple, a towing hook, or a gob line.”

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