dobbing

Verb (1)

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

1. (Australia, New Zealand, intransitive, slang) To report a person to someone in authority for a wrongdoing. (For transitive forms see dob in, dob on.)
   • Students often claimed that an act of informing was just ‘dobbing as a joke’ and therefore ‘not really dobbing’.1983, James Macpherson, The Feral Classroom, page 107
2. (Northern Ireland, ambitransitive, slang) To play truant.
   • Parents were taken to court 189 times in the Western region over the past five years because their children were ‘dobbing’ school.¶ The Education Minister John O’Dowd revealed the number of parents taken to court due to children being absent from school […]2015 October 11, Kevin Mullan, “189 parents in dock for ‘dobbing’”, in Londonderry Sentinel

Verb (2)

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

1. (humorous, intransitive, sometimes) In the scouting movement, to chant dob to indicate that one will do one's best to follow the scouting laws.
   • I used to get through the dibbing and dobbing all right but during the howling I usually rolled over backwards.2009, Clive James, Unreliable Memoirs, page 54

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