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boob
noun- a fool US, 1907
Almost certainly from C16 “booby”, meaning a “stupid fellow”. - There’s another buddyship of boobs who think the earth is hollow and we live inside. — Philip Wylie, Opus 21, p. 85, 1949
- When Mr. Money arrived at the airport, the grifter had him paged, then introduced himself with a bunk story, such as being a friend of the hotel manager, who had asked him to pick up the boob. — Jack Lait and Lee Mortimer, Washington Confidential, p. 277, 1951
- In the majority of cases, it was a sloppily managed dive controlled by hoodlums (at its worst) or amateurs and arrogant boobs (at its best) for years before the paying popular became awake. — Robert Sylvester, No Cover Charge, p. 298, 1956
- But wouldn’t it be funny if he suddenly turned to him and said, “Phil Latham, you’re a boob.” — John Knowles, A Separate Peace, p. 175, 1959
- [T]his poor girl is stuck with a boob! — Hunter S. Thompson, Songs of the Doomed, p. 49, 1959
- Your rotarian boob of a publisher has one of the most original minds I’ve run across in quite a while. — Hunter S. Thompson, The Proud Highway, p. 191, 29 October 1959: Letter to William J. Kennedy
- New York Billie dug that Willie was from Lame Junction so he figured he’d take this boob for the New York pig. — Babs Gonzales, “A Manhatten Fable” in Movin’ On Down De Line, p. 89, 1975
- the female breast US, 1931
From synonymous “bub”. Generally used in the plural. - She had a nice pair of boobs and hed like ta catch her sometime, — Hubert Selby Jr, Last Exit to Brooklyn, p. 268, 1957
- Someone would sit up and point at some sex display, “Look at those boobs!” — Frederick Kohner, Gidget, p. 49, 1957
- You know, Lynda Robb–Johnson–came to my last party and here were all these girls in the crocheted see-through dresses with their boobs sticking out. — San Francisco Examiner, p. 51, 23 July 1970
- Her breasts weren’t especially big, or little, or round, or pointy or any of those magazine-writer tit fetish cliches. They were just nice boobs on a nice woman. — Gurney Norman, Divine Right’s Trip (Last Whole Earth Catalog), p. 41, 1971
- “Oh, I wish you wouldn’t use that expression [flat],” retorted Miss Andrews in her precise British voice. “Everyone including Carol Burnett knows I have bigger boobs than she does.” — San Francisco Chronicle, p. 58, 15 December 1971
- I was the east coast rep for one of the biggest distributors of girlie magazines in the country, and as I sold magazines to wholesalers I began to notice that big boob material was always a consistant seller[.] — Adult Video, p. 47, August/September 1986
- Are you a boob guy or a butt guy? — Sky Magazine, p. 51, July 2001
- jail US, 1908
Hartley (1944) claims that an old prisoners he knew remembered the term from as far back as the 1880s, which is feasible since “booby hatch”, from which “boob” is ultimately derived, dates back as far as 1859 in the US. - He’ll probably put a stone through a window to get back into boob. — Kevin Mackey, The Cure, p. 70, 1970
- — Shane Maloney, Nice Try, p. 290, 1998
- — David McGill, David McGill’s Complete Kiwi Slang Dictionary, p. 19, 1998
- [H]er old man’s out of the boob now and he’s one fuckin’ mean mother. — Garry Bushell, The Face, p. 15, 2001
- a blunder, a faux pas US, 1934
- A generation of young people out there will never ever forgive us if we make a boob this time. — Mr Savage, Northern Ireland Assemby [Hansard], 16 February 1999
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