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gobs
noun- a great deal of US, 1839
In the C16, a “gob” or “gubbe” referred specifically to a “great deal of money” or a “large mouthful of fatty meat”. By World War 2, the term had acquired this broader meaning, as evidenced by the title of Johnny Viney’s 1943 wartime humorous novel Sailors are Gobs of Fun, Hattie. - And every time the train stopped, Cole would hop off and buy gobs of candy and cold drinks and cookies and everything else he could lay hands on. — Jim Thompson, The Grifters, p. 79, 1963
- — Collin Baker et al., College Undergraduate Slang Study Conducted at Brown University, p. 126, 1968
- They have washed, gobs of people in front of me, alongside me, behind me, and I’m still standin’. — Edwin Torres, After Hours, p. 335, 1979
- in a hospital, gynaecology UK
Rhymed on the model of OBS (obstetrics). - — Dr Adam T. Fox, St Mary’s Hospital, London, 10 October 2002
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