goboon

Definitions

A receptacle for spit; a spittoon, a spitbox; a spit bucket.

colloquial

Examples

“He came into the limelight during segregation when a falling goboon brought with it a shower of something else and he earned the name⟳ of Reiny and a black N five stars.”

“[About Antek's bar:] Neither bright neon nor a soft fluorescence lighted either his ceiling or his walls; but there was plenty of butchershop sawdust along the floor and an old-fashioned golden goboon for every four bar stools.”

“In the House chamber, weary Speaker Sam Rayburn, pausing only to spit⟳ with experienced accuracy into his goboon, cleared hundreds of routine bills with incessant repetition of the magic words: "Without objection, so ordered."”

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