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Definition of 'yob'English
Noun
( en-noun)
(pejorative|chiefly|British|Australia|NZ|slang) A person who engages in antisocial behavior/behaviour and/or drunkenness.
* 2010 , Paul R. Wilson, The Birthday of Eternity , page 209
- As we left the cemetary, I heard an elderly gravedigger muttering back slang to himself before Lucien's headstone. "Bloody shame, ain't it? Doubt the yob' did much living by eighteen."
I corrected the man, saying, “No fear, that '''''yob did plenty of living.”
Synonyms
* (standard register) hooligan
* (British) tearaway, chav
* (Chiefly Australian slang) yobbo
* (Geordie slang) charva
Derived terms
* yobbo
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