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gob sticks

gob sticks is the plural 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

Questions about gob sticks

What is gob sticks the plural of?
Gob sticks is the plural of gob stick.

Words near gob sticks in the dictionary

  1. gob irons
  2. gob job
  3. gob jobs
  4. gob off
  5. gob stick
  6. gob sticks
  7. gob stopper
  8. gob stoppers
  9. gob up
  10. gob-stick
  11. gob-sticks

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