GOBS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does gobs mean? 

• GOBS (noun)
  The noun GOBS has 1 sense:

1. a large number or amount

  Familiarity information: GOBS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GOBS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A large number or amount

Classified under:

Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure

Synonyms:

dozens; gobs; heaps; lashings; loads; lots; oodles; piles; rafts; scads; scores; slews; stacks; tons; wads

Context example:

she amassed stacks of newspapers

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

large indefinite amount; large indefinite quantity (an indefinite quantity that is above the average in size or magnitude)

 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)