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In some senses, yob is marked as obsolete, derogatory, slang, UK. Watch for register when choosing this word.
noun
A boy.
And you bet that each gal, not to mention each yob, Didn't care how much ooftish it cost 'em per nob.
As we left the cemetery, I heard an elderly gravedigger muttering back slang to himself before Lucien's headstone. "Bloody shame, ain't it? Doubt the yob did much living by eighteen." I corrected the man, saying, “No fear, that yob did plenty of living.”
A person who engages in antisocial behaviour or drunkenness.
Yes, it's holiday time again for British yobs – and the rest of us can flee to those parts of Abroad which the louts ignore, or just cringe in shame at home.
But while doing 70mph on the A1, a hooded yob threw rock^([sic – meaning a rock]) from a grass verge onto the windscreen of the family’s Jeep, causing it to swerve.
noun
Initialism of year of birth.
phrase
Alternative spelling of YOB (year of birth)