job

job

1. slang A criminal act, especially a theft, robbery, or heist. We all agreed to pull one last job, then get out of the business for good. I know you're just out of prison, but I've got a job lined up for you if you're interested.
2. informal An example or instance of a specific type of thing, especially a construction or product. The new library is going to be one of those fancy postmodern jobs that seem to be all the rage these days. This TV is one of those smart, always-online jobs that suggests content to you based on your viewing history.
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

job

1. n. a drunkard. Give the job a drink and make somebody happy today.
2. n. a theft; a criminal act. (see also pull a job.) Who did that job at the old mansion last week?
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See:
  • (as) patient as Job
  • (as) poor as a Job's turkey
  • a bang up job
  • a demolition job
  • a devil of a job
  • a full-time job
  • a good job/thing too
  • a good job/thing...
  • a hatchet job
  • a job of work
  • a Job's comforter
  • a put-up job
  • a snow job
  • a whale of a
  • a/the devil of a job, nuisance, fellow, etc.
  • an inside job
  • an uphill job
  • and a good job, too
  • and a good thing, too
  • be just the job
  • be sleeping on the job
  • between jobs
  • come to the job with
  • come to the job with (something)
  • con job
  • cushy job
  • day job
  • demolition job
  • devil of a job
  • do a bad job
  • do a demolition job on (someone or something)
  • do a good job
  • do a good, bad, etc. job
  • do a hatchet job on
  • do a hatchet job on (someone or something)
  • do a job on
  • do a job on (someone or something)
  • do a job on someone
  • do a job on someone From do a number on something.
  • do a job on someone/something
  • do a number on someone
  • do a snow job on (someone)
  • do a snow job on someone
  • do the job
  • do the job/trick
  • don't give up the day job
  • don't give up your day job
  • don't quit the day job
  • don't quit your day job
  • fall down on the job
  • full-time job
  • give (one) up as a bad job
  • give somebody/something up as a bad job
  • give something up as a bad job
  • give up (something) as a bad job
  • Give us the tools, and we will finish the job
  • Give us the tools, and we will finish the job.
  • good job
  • good job!
  • hand job
  • hatchet job
  • hatchet man
  • have a job
  • have a job doing/to do something
  • have the devil's own job
  • have the patience of a saint
  • have the patience of Job
  • head-job
  • hum job
  • inside job
  • it's more than my job's worth
  • job
  • job lot
  • Job's comforter
  • jobs for the boys
  • joe job
  • just the job
  • just the job/ticket
  • land (something)
  • land a job
  • lay down on the job
  • lie down
  • lie down on the job
  • make the best of a bad job
  • make the best of something/things/a bad job
  • more than your job's worth
  • never send a boy to do a man's job
  • Nice going!
  • nice job
  • nine-to-five job
  • nose job
  • nutjob
  • odd job
  • odd jobs
  • on the job
  • patience of Job, the
  • patient as Job
  • poor as Job's turkey
  • pull a job
  • put-up job
  • rim job
  • snow job
  • soft job
  • the devil's own job
  • the patience of a saint/of Job
  • the patience of Job
  • wack job
  • walk off the job
  • wall job
  • way to go
  • you had one job
References in classic literature
"Plain words is more than you'll get from Job," Lethbridge replied gloomily.
'Because they live one hundred miles from here, sir,' responded Job Trotter.
'There is no fear of my forgetting it, sir,' replied Job Trotter.
Jingle and Job had gone out together, that their luggage was packed up, and that they had ordered a chaise.
He knew that his purpose was in the main a good one, and he placed implicit reliance on the high-minded Job. it was dull, certainly; not to say dreary; but a contemplative man can always employ himself in meditation.
What was his astonishment when he just peeped out, by way of caution, to see that the person who had opened it was--not Job Trotter, but a servant-girl with a candle in her hand!
No cleaner job had ever been carried out in the bloodstained annals of the society.
When a few weeks later it was reported in the papers that Wilcox had been shot at from an ambuscade, it was an open secret that McMurdo was still at work upon his unfinished job.
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