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on the blob

on the blob prepositional phrase: menstruating; on one's period.

Prepositional phrase

  1. (UK, slang, vulgar) Menstruating; on one's period.
    • I have no problems fucking wimin on the blob. But some of them do1993 April 19, Sean McAfee, “The Great a.t. IRC Party, part III”, in alt.tasteless (Usenet), message-ID <1993Apr19.224852.14466@mtu.edu>
    • Sweet's heroines are – well, unskinny; they eat lard, drink, smoke, ponce off the state, have huge dumps and go on the blob at inconvenient times.1997 July 3, Nicholas Lezard, “Paperbacks”, in The Guardian, page A14
    Synonyms:
    on the rag
  2. (UK, obsolete, slang) Of begging etc.: performed by speaking to people, not by writing letters.
    • With this excusable class, however, I have not now to do. Of professional beggars there are two kinds—those who ‘do it on the blob’ (by word of mouth), and those who do it by ‘screeving,’ that is, by petitions and letters, setting forth imaginary cases of distress.1851, Henry Mayhew, London Labour and the London Poor, published 1861

Synonyms of on the blob

Origin of on the blob

(menstruating): Apparently a reference to the blobbing (i.e. dripping) of menstrual blood, likely following the model of on the rag.

Questions about on the blob

What does on the blob mean?
On the blob means menstruating; on one's period.
What part of speech is on the blob?
On the blob is a prepositional phrase.

Words near on the blob in the dictionary

  1. on the beat
  2. on the bench
  3. on the bias
  4. on the blanket
  5. on the blink
  6. on the blob
  7. on the block
  8. on the boil
  9. on the boob
  10. on the book
  11. on the books

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