Meaning of knob rot | Babel Free

Definitions

A sexually transmitted disease (when contracted by a man).

British, slang, uncountable, vulgar

Examples

“galloping knob rot”

a rapidly progressing or uncontrollable sexually transmitted disease

“The Raff's getting like⟳ the boy scouts. The old regulars, they didn't think⟳ you were properly in until you'd gone down with galloping knob rot […]”

“You've been under attack for days, there's a soldier down, he's wounded, gangrene's setting in. "Who's used all the penicillin?" "Oh, Mark⟳ Paxton, sir. He's got knob rot off some tart."”

“Liam O'Grady removed (unconscious) from church for failing to forever hold⟳ his peace, and instead brandishing note⟳ from sexual health walk-in clinic declaring he is now knob-rot free and begging Thin Kylie to take⟳ him back […]”

CEFR level