GOB

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does gob mean? 

• GOB (noun)
  The noun GOB has 3 senses:

1. a man who serves as a sailor

2. a lump of slimy stuff

3. informal terms for the mouth

  Familiarity information: GOB used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GOB (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A man who serves as a sailor

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

gob; Jack; Jack-tar; mariner; old salt; sea dog; seafarer; seaman; tar

Hypernyms ("gob" is a kind of...):

crewman; sailor (any member of a ship's crew)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "gob"):

able-bodied seaman; able seaman (a seaman in the merchant marine; trained in special skills)

bo's'n; bo'sun; boatswain; bos'n; bosun (a petty officer on a merchant ship who controls the work of other seamen)

deckhand; roustabout (a member of a ship's crew who performs manual labor)

helmsman; steerer; steersman (the person who steers a ship)

bargee; bargeman; lighterman (someone who operates a barge)

officer; ship's officer (a person authorized to serve in a position of authority on a vessel)

pilot (a person qualified to guide ships through difficult waters going into or out of a harbor)

sea lawyer (an argumentative and contentious seaman)

whaler (a seaman who works on a ship that hunts whales)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A lump of slimy stuff

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Context example:

a gob of phlegm

Hypernyms ("gob" is a kind of...):

ball; chunk; clod; clump; glob; lump (a compact mass)

Domain region:

Britain; Great Britain; U.K.; UK; United Kingdom; United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (a monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles; divided into England and Scotland and Wales and Northern Ireland; 'Great Britain' is often used loosely to refer to the United Kingdom)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Informal terms for the mouth

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

cakehole; gob; hole; maw; trap; yap

Hypernyms ("gob" is a kind of...):

mouth; oral cavity; oral fissure; rima oris (the opening through which food is taken in and vocalizations emerge)

 Context examples 

In 2011, Sargassum populations started to explode in places it hadn’t been before, like the central Atlantic Ocean, and then it arrived in gargantuan gobs that suffocated shorelines and introduced a new nuisance for local environments and economies.

(Satellites Find Biggest Seaweed Bloom in the World, NASA)