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 […]”

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