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gobstick

gobstick 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 gobstick

pluralgobsticks

Questions about gobstick

What is gobstick the alternative form of?
Gobstick is the alternative form of gob stick.

Words near gobstick in the dictionary

  1. gobsmacker
  2. gobsmackers
  3. gobsmacking
  4. gobsmackingly
  5. gobsmacks
  6. gobstick
  7. gobsticks
  8. gobstopper
  9. gobstopper tree
  10. gobstopper trees
  11. gobstoppers

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