moob
/muːb/
moob noun: a plump or untoned breast on a man.
Noun (1)
moob (plural moobs)
- A plump or untoned breast on a man.
- Vince has Moobs (man boobs = moobs)1998 September 6, 6PANTERA, “Re: SUNDAY NIGHT HEAT: November 29, 1998, I'll be there...”, in t-netz.wrestling.wwf (Usenet), retrieved 12 Sep 2016, message-ID <6svsrp$dnp@chronicle.concentric.net>
- Yeah, put a shirt on gene, we don't want to see your fatty moobs.2001 September 3, miha ³, "Re: I know I shouldn't be doing this but...", in alt.games.video.nintendo.gamecube, Usenet
- Synonyms:
- man boob
Verb
moob (third-person singular simple present moobs, present participle moobing, simple past and past participle moobed)
- To rapidly adjust the evaluation of a position towards zero, indicating a likely draw.
- Stockfish was slightly moobing until Leela played Qf5. An innocuous looking move that immediately sent alarm bells ringing and Stockfishes^([sic]) evaluation just kept rising.2020 September 20, u/FMExperiment, “Stockfish beats Leela to inflict her first defeat in TCEC season 19 and remains the last undefeated engine!”, in Reddit, r/chess, archived from the original on 22...
- The time taken for an engine to boom / moob can be quite a while because that time taken is completely dependent on the hardware you're running the program on.2020 November 27, Allure, “Big changes in engine's evaluation after considerable time”, in Stack Exchange, archived from the original on 22 May 2024
- Antonyms:
- boom
Noun (2)
moob (plural moobs)
- An instance of moobing.
- The latest Stockfish on my laptop finds mate in 22 in less than a minute. Do you have any examples where a boom (or moob) occurs after 2-3 minutes of evaluation?2020 November 27, the_fox, “Big changes in engine's evaluation after considerable time”, in Stack Exchange, archived from the original on 22 May 2024
- One notable exception to the missing lines being interesting: Sometimes on a moob the sudden insight is 'I'm going to hit the 50 move rule before realizing my advantage'.2021 January 23, Bram Cohen, “You're doing computer chess game commentary wrong”, in Medium, archived from the original on 06 Dec 2022
- Antonyms:
- boom
Examples of moob in a sentence
- Often – I refer you in particular to Rod Stewart and Tony Blair – these moobs are strangely taut and unsaggy, and have that bee-stung, 12-year-old girl look.2007 January 6, The Guardian:
- The reverse was also won uneventfully by LEELA although the fish emotes were numerous in the chat as STOCKFISH 'moobed' to a mere 0.40 evaluation after its 25th move!2021 May 26, Matthew Sadler, “The TCEC20 Computer Chess Superfinal: a Perspective”, in ICGA Journal, volume 43, number 1, →DOI, pages 74–87:
- The evaluation boom and moob continued as Stockfish headed for a queen-rook-knight vs queen-rook-knight position that looked pretty nasty to me!2022 April 22, Matthew Sadler, “TCEC Season 22 SuperFinal: Komodo Dragon vs Stockfish”, in TCEC, archived from the original on 13 Dec 2022:
Synonyms of moob
Antonyms
Forms of moob
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | moobs |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | moobs |
| present participle | moobing |
| past participle | moobed |
| past | moobed |
Origin of moob
Blend of man + boob.
Inversion of boom (“to rapidly adjust the evaluation of a position away from zero, indicating a likely win or loss”).
Words that rhyme with moob
Questions about moob
- What does moob mean?
- Moob means a plump or untoned breast on a man.
- How do you use moob in a sentence?
- Often – I refer you in particular to Rod Stewart and Tony Blair – these moobs are strangely taut and unsaggy, and have that bee-stung, 12-year-old girl look.
- What part of speech is moob?
- Moob can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce moob?
- Moob is pronounced /muːb/.
- What is the plural of moob?
- The plural of moob is moobs.
Words near moob in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: moob (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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