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gob-stick

gob-stick is the alternative form of gob stick.

Meaning of gob stick

Noun

gob stick (plural gob sticks)

  1. (slang) A clarinet.
    • Stop spouting and give us some groovy licks on that gob stick of yours.2013, R. K. Cowles, “1930s Poems: Licking the Chops”, in Slang Poetry Volume 1, →ISBN, page 57
  2. (UK, archaic, dialectal, slang) A spoon.
  3. A stick or device for removing the hook from a fish's gullet.
    • He […] wrenched out the hook with the short wooden stick he called a "gob-stick".1897, Rudyard Kipling, chapter 3, in Captains Courageous

Forms of gob-stick

pluralgob-sticks

Questions about gob-stick

What is gob-stick the alternative form of?
Gob-stick is the alternative form of gob stick.

Words near gob-stick in the dictionary

  1. gob stick
  2. gob sticks
  3. gob stopper
  4. gob stoppers
  5. gob up
  6. gob-stick
  7. gob-sticks
  8. gob-stopper
  9. gob-stoppers
  10. gob-string
  11. gob-strings

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