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dob in verb- to inform against someone; to tell on someone AUSTRALIA, 1954
- I don’t expect you to dob your shipmate in. — J.E. MacDonnell, Don’t Gimme the Ships, p. 122, 1960
- It was Liz Short who dobbed us both in. — Alvin Purple, p. 99, 1974
- I break rank from C company 3 RAR and run like buggery up the hill, wondering all the way whether some mongrel had dobbed me in for going AWOL the week before to visit the Barossa Valley. — Martin Cameron, A Look at the Bright Side, 1988
- But they never dobbed him in. — Richard Francis, The Rialto, p. 87, 1999
- I’ll have to dob him in to the Fathers. — Pete McCarthy, McCarthy’s Bar, p. 318, 2000
- to contribute funds AUSTRALIA, 1956
- Wharfies will always dob in for a strike fund. — Frank Hardy, The Outcasts of Foolgarah, p. 48, 1971
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