1. [US, informal] A person who serves as a sailor
   "The old gob regaled us with tales of his voyages";
   - mariner, seaman, tar, Jack-tar, Jack [informal], old salt, seafarer, sea dog
    
2. [Brit, informal] A lump of slimy stuff
   "a gob of phlegm"
    
3. [Brit, informal] The opening through which food is taken in and vocalizations emerge
   "he stuffed his gob with candy";
   - mouth, oral cavity, oral fissure, trap [informal], cakehole [Brit, informal], hole [informal], maw [informal], yap [N. Amer, informal], kisser [informal]
    
4. [N. Amer, informal] A large number or quantity
   "There were a gob of people at the concert";
   - shedload [Brit, informal], truckload [informal], barrowload [informal], buttload [N. Amer, informal], bucket [informal], bucketload [informal], ton [informal]

1. Expel or eject (saliva or phlegm or sputum) from the mouth
   - spit, spew [informal], spue [archaic]

Derived forms: gobbed, gobs, gobbing

Type of: adult male, ball, bozo [N. Amer, informal], cat [N. Amer, informal], chappie [Brit, informal], chunk, clod, clump, cough out, cough up, expectorate, geezer [Brit, informal], glob, guy [informal], hombre [N. Amer, informal], lump, man, rima, sailor, sod [informal], spit out, spit up

Part of: mouth

Encyclopedia: Gob