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dobbed in

dobbed in is the simple past and past participle of dob in.

Meaning of dob in

Verb

dob in (third-person singular simple present dobs in, present participle dobbing in, simple past and past participle dobbed in)

  1. (slang, transitive) To betray (someone) by informing on them.
    • I can't believe you dobbed her in.
  2. (Australia, slang, transitive) To contribute (something).
    • We all dobbed in for a gift when he retired.
  3. (Australia, slang) To nominate a person, often in their absence, for an unpleasant task.
    • I arrived just after the meeting had started and found myself dobbed in to take the minutes.

Questions about dobbed in

What is dobbed in the simple past and past participle of?
Dobbed in is the simple past and past participle of dob in.

Words near dobbed in in the dictionary

  1. dobash
  2. dobashes
  3. Dobb
  4. Dobb Brow
  5. dobbed
  6. dobbed in
  7. dobber
  8. dobbers
  9. Dobberstein
  10. Dobbersteins
  11. Dobbiaco

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Adapted from Wiktionary: dobbed in (page history and authors); dob in (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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