slob
/ˈslɒb/US/ˈslɑb/
slob noun: a lazy and slovenly or obese person.
Noun
slob (plural slobs)
- A lazy and slovenly or obese person.
- What if God was one of us / Just a slob like one of us1995, Eric Bazilian, “One of Us”, in Relish, performed by Joan Osborne
- "Ladies and gentlemen, we have just begun our gradual descent into the Indianapolis area, a descent similar in many ways to the gradual slide of the United States from a first-class world leader to an aggressive, third-rate debtor nation of overweight slobs, undereducated slob children and aimless...2004, George Carlin, “COMIN' DOWN”, in When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops?, New York: Hyperion Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 58
- A member of the Bloods.
Verb
slob (third-person singular simple present slobs, present participle slobbing, simple past and past participle slobbed)
- To move slowly or cumbersomely.
- […] save the placid Jemima who slobbed along as slowly and comfortable as a well-fatted pig returning from feeding-trough to stye.1880, “Our Jemimas” […], page 12
- Mitch slobbed down on to the sofa and plonked a foot on the table, his ankle right next to the offending device.2008, Nick Oldham, Crunch Time, →ISBN
- To act like a slob, in a lazy or slovenly way.
- For I have always lived violently, drunk hugely, eaten too much or not at all, slept around the clock or missed two nights of sleeping, worked too hard and too long in glory, or slobbed for a time in utter laziness.1962, John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley: In Search of America, page 20
- There’s nothin’ sweeter than slobbing in front of crap TV after a hard day’s work … There is nothing worse than slobbing in front of crap TV after a hard day’s nothing.2015, Tom Boland, Ray Griffin, “A Telling Silence: Beckett, Kafka, and the Experience of Being Unemployed”, in Michal Izak, Linda Hitchin, David Anderson, editors, Untold Stories in Organizations...
- To slop or spatter.
- He had a pail of paint, and I didn't want to get slobbed up with paint, […]1907, Cases Decided in the Supreme Court of Michigan, volume 147, page 625
- You've been SLOBBED! Hit the showers and try again.1994, Deep River Publishing, H.U.R.L., MS-DOS, scene: game over screen
- To drool or slobber; to talk while slobbering.
- I could not understand his intense feeling for his smelly hounds, with their horrible yelping and slobbing mouths.1924, Shane Leslie, Masquerades: Studies in the Morbid, page 32
- He called Carrington’s name with a mouth no longer capable of forming the syllables, passionately desiring the boy to be alive, and the result was a slobbing idiotic cry.1947, Herbert Ernest Bates, The Purple Plain, page 283
- To perform fellatio.
- A lot of these SUVs have a big enough middle compartment where you can barely reach over and slob his knob.2003, Wendy Williams, Wendy’s Got the Heat: The Queen of Radio Bares All, →ISBN, page 246
- Only a lame could get his jimmy slobbed down by Lover Lips, who was one of the best gamers on planet-whore, and not learn a thing or two about manipulation.2012, Tecori Sheldon, When Truth is Gangsta: A Novel, →ISBN, page 111
slob meaning in Malayalam, Kannada, Gujarati and Arabic
slob in Malayalam
- good-for-nothing, layabout, sluggard
- മന്ദൻ, മന്തൻ, അലസൻ, മടിയൻ, കുഴിമടിയൻ, മന്ദഗതിക്കാരൻ
slob in Kannada
- ಸೋಮಾರಿಯಾದ ವ್ಯಕ್ತಿ, ಮೈಗಳ್ಳ, ಒಡ್ಡೊಡ್ಡಾಗಿ ಉಡುಪು ಧರಿಸಿದ ವ್ಯಕ್ತಿ, ಅಡ್ಡಾದಿಡ್ಡಿ ವೇಷದ ವ್ಯಕ್ತಿ
slob in Gujarati
- lazy, slovenly person
- આળસી āḷsī
slob in Arabic
- lazy, obese person
- تَنْبَل tanbal
More languagesFewer languages
- slob in Malay
- pemalas
Forms of slob
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | slobs |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | slobs |
| present participle | slobbing |
| past participle | slobbed |
| past | slobbed |
Origin of slob
From Irish slaba. Compare slobber, which is of Germanic origin.
Words formed from slob
Words that rhyme with slob
Questions about slob
- What does slob mean?
- Slob means a lazy and slovenly or obese person.
- What is slob in Malayalam?
- Slob in Malayalam is മന്ദൻ, മന്തൻ, അലസൻ. See Slob meaning in Malayalam.
- What part of speech is slob?
- Slob can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce slob?
- Slob is pronounced /ˈslɒb/ (UK).
- What is the plural of slob?
- The plural of slob is slobs.
Words near slob in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: slob (page history and authors); slob (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); slob (Kannada Wiktionary) (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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