gob

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noun (1)

ˈgäb

Synonyms of gob next

: lump

: a large amount

—usually used in plural

gobs of money

gob

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Example Sentences

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Noun

Smith has never lost his aura of bemused angst, with his dripping gobs of eyeliner, his smeared red lipstick, his sticky black-bat swamp of hair. —

Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 17 May 2023 The Bay Area’s Craigslist currently has gobs of the chairs for sale, photographed in warehouses, lined up in corners of conference rooms and wrapped in plastic outside a storage unit. —

Erin Griffith, New York Times, 25 Feb. 2023 Manufacturers have to add gobs of other chemicals to give plastic its plastic properties—things that make the polymer more heat resistant, for example, or more flexible. —

WIRED, 18 Feb. 2023 The soundness of the strategy is obvious during fall or spring salmon seasons, but believe me, a gob of fish eggs is effective any time of year. —

Morgan Lyle, Field & Stream, 25 Apr. 2023 Particularly impressive is the massive Arrakis predator known as the sandworm, a fearsome creature that first makes its presence known as a giant ripple of action beneath the sand, before poking its lamprey-like head aboveground to sweep its prey—machinery, people, whatever—into its toothy gob. —

Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 3 Sep. 2021 And corporate shake-ups at HBO Max have resulted in gobs of stuff being removed from that platform entirely. —

Wired Staff, WIRED, 23 Feb. 2023 Neeson, under gobs of stomach-churning makeup for a great deal of the run time, delivers a pitch-perfect performance that beautifully blends high camp and wrenching pathos. —

Declan Gallagher, EW.com, 17 Feb. 2023 That led to the opening of several gob-burning plants, including Grant Town. —

New York Times, 27 Mar. 2022 See More

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