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In some senses, dob is marked as slang, humorous. Watch for register when choosing this word.
dob
/dɑb/
noun 6verb 3name 2
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4ADJ.
verified
VERB + DOB
name, put
DOB + NOUN
butter, sex
PREP.
on, on
Definitions
noun
1
Initialism of date of birth.
2
Initialism of degree of bending.
name
1
Initialism of Daughters of Bilitis The first organized and successful lesbian liberation organization in the United States.
2
Initialism of 2 or 5-Dimethoxy-4-bromoamphetamine A psychedelic drug similar to 2C-B.
verb
1
To report a person to someone in authority for a wrongdoing. (For transitive forms see dob in, dob on.)
Students often claimed that an act of informing was just ‘dobbing as a joke’ and therefore ‘not really dobbing’.
Alex was concerned that if others thought he had dobbed, things would get even worse for him. Dobbing was the worst thing a student could do.
2
To play truant.
Parents were taken to court 189 times in the Western region over the past five years because their children were ‘dobbing’ school.¶ The Education Minister John O’Dowd revealed the number of parents taken to court due to children being absent from school […]
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Students often claimed that an act of informing was just ‘dobbing as a joke’ and therefore ‘not really dobbing’.
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Alex was concerned that if others thought he had dobbed, things would get even worse for him. Dobbing was the worst thing a student could do.
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Parents were taken to court 189 times in the Western region over the past five years because their children were ‘dobbing’ school.¶ The Education Minister John O’Dowd revealed the number of parents ta
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Put a dob of butter on the potato, please.
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1903, Rudyard Kipling, The Tabu Tale, in Just So Stories (in the U.S. Scribner edition, but omitted from most British editions), ‘Consequence will be, O Tegumai,’ said the Head Chief, ‘that we will ma
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I used to get through the dibbing and dobbing all right but during the howling I usually rolled over backwards.
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