Meaning of ob- | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Against; facing; a combining prefix found in verbs of Latin origin.
   idiomatic, morpheme
2. Obligatory; prepended to the name of a topic being mentioned to avoid accusations of being off-topic.
   Internet, humorous, informal, morpheme
3. Of a reversed shape.
   morpheme

Examples

“ObGoth: Uh, well, it's like this you see, <searches in random file o' obgoth things> anyone out there got the new CoX album on Tess? If so which album is it *most* like?”

“Aren't Newcastle's chairman Sunderland supporters? (From the way they acted?) Erm...obspeccy? Tynesoft, eh? What happened to them?”

“ObLinux: SAP were giving away a free development environment for use with RedHat v6.1 recently, a distinctly non-free complete system has been available for a while. This offers another example of a commercial application where the vendors now have sufficient confidence in Linux to release a port (even if it is distribution-specific).”

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