Noun: gobs góbz
Usage: N. Amer, informal
Usage: informal
Usage: Brit, vulgar (N. Amer: spit)
Usage: N. Amer, informal
- 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]
Usage: informal
- [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
- [Brit, informal] A lump of slimy stuff
"a gob of phlegm"
- [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]
- [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]
Usage: Brit, vulgar (N. Amer: spit)
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], large indefinite amount, large indefinite quantity, lump, man, rima, sailor, sod [informal], spit out, spit up
Part of: mouth
Encyclopedia: Gob