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1. A large number or amount
   "made gobs of new friends";
   - tons [informal], dozens, heaps [informal], lots, piles [informal], scores, stacks [informal], loads [informal], rafts [informal], slews, wads [informal], oodles [informal], scads [N. Amer, informal], lashings [Brit, informal], many, masses [Brit, informal]

1. [US, informal] A man who serves as a sailor
   - mariner, seaman, tar, Jack-tar, Jack, 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
   - 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
   - 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
   "The father of the victim gobbed at the alleged murderer";
   - spit, spew [informal], spue [archaic]

Type of: ball, chunk, clod, clump, cough out, cough up, crewman, expectorate, glob, large indefinite amount, large indefinite quantity, lump, rima, sailor, spit out, spit up

Part of: mouth

Encyclopedia: Gob