gobs

Noun (1)

gob (countable and uncountable, plural gobs)

1. (countable) A lump of soft or sticky material.
   • These inventors have discovered that gobs may be fed at widely spaced times without allowing the glass to flow during the interval but instead flushes out the chilled glass which accumulates during the dwell.1952, The Glass Industry, Volume 33, Ashlee Publishing Company, page 309
2. (slang, uncountable) Saliva or phlegm.
   • He spat a big ball of gob on to the pavement.

   Synonyms:

   saliva, spit, sputum

3. (US, countable, regional) A whoopie pie.
4. (in plural) A large amount.
   • gobs of money

   Synonyms:

   abundance, battalion, arseload, assload, bellyload, boatload, brimful, busload, bucketful, bucketload

Noun (2)

gob (plural gobs)

1. (Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, slang) The mouth.
   • He′s always stuffing his gob with fast food.

   Synonyms:

   cakehole, mush, trap, bazoo, chops, clam, clamshell, hash-trap, kisser, laughing gear

Noun (3)

gob (plural gobs)

1. (uncountable) Waste material in old mine workings, goaf.
   • This consisted in wheeling gob back to the most distant part of the stope and filling up the sets right up to the roof.1930, Engineering and Mining Journal, volume 130, page 330

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