slobs

noun

plural of slob
1
as in slatterns
a dirty or sloppy person a slob of a professor whose office was littered with a decade's worth of notes and student papers

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2
as in jerks
a person whose behavior is offensive to others he's easy enough to get along with when he's not being a loudmouthed slob

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3
as in men
a member of the human race you just know some poor slob is going to get blamed for this mix-up

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4
as in everymen
an average or ordinary man I don't know much about trust funds, as I'm just some poor slob who has to work hard for a living

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  1. jerks
  2. men
  3. everymen
  4. dogs
  5. guys
  6. workers
  7. clowns
  8. lives
Noun
  • Lee and his Burning co-writer Oh Jung-mi resist what might have been the first instinct of many filmmakers by refusing to make Ye-ji and Sang-woo overly patronizing rich jerks.
    — David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 6 Sep. 2026
  • The Ars OpenForum is a place for readers to ask questions, compare notes, argue (without being jerks to each other), and go down all sorts of rabbit holes.
    — Eric Bangeman, ArsTechnica, 31 Aug. 2026
Definition of jerks
Noun
  • There are so few CEO roles, and there is a desire to make sure that women are more perfect than men.
    — Jenny B. Fine, Footwear News, 9 Oct. 2026
  • His message to men dealing with low energy, slow recovery or lagging strength is practical.
    — Samantha Agate, Kansas City Star, 8 Oct. 2026
Definition of men
Noun
  • In a World Cup boasting a galaxy of stars, a lunch-bucket team of blue-collar everymen may wind up outshining them all.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 15 July 2026
  • The 50th anniversary of his Game 7 heroics was marked in 2010 by the unveiling — on Bill Mazeroski Way — of a 14-foot, 2,000-pound statue of one of Pittsburgh’s greatest everymen, rounding the bases, on top of the world.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 21 Feb. 2026
Definition of everymen
Noun
  • Three pups, named Romulus, Remus, and Khaleesi, have been born to domestic dogs used as surrogate mothers.
    — Colleen McKown, CNBC, 10 Oct. 2026
  • Beachgoers strolled with coffee in hand, went for morning runs and walked their dogs.
    — Jaweed Kaleem, Los Angeles Times, 10 Oct. 2026
Definition of dogs
Noun
  • The only way to make the bad guys sweat is to hand them a subpoena — or, at the least, to depict them unflatteringly on television.
    — Noel Murray, Vulture, 9 Oct. 2026
  • Hip-hop fans who’ve followed Migos’ journey will never forget what you guys have done in music and your influence on other artists around the world.
    — Mikey Fresh, VIBE.com, 9 Oct. 2026
Definition of guys
Noun
  • Conrad has done an outstanding job of pulling together a team of local workers at all levels of the business.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 Oct. 2026
  • During the boom years of the reform era, from 1978 to the early 2000s, China was a country of productive workers.
    — Carl Minzner, Foreign Affairs, 5 Oct. 2026
Definition of workers
Noun
  • The gasoline shortage has become such a feature of daily life that even clowns at Moscow’s circus have cracked jokes about it.
    — Ivan Nechepurenko, New York Times, 4 Oct. 2026
  • Because some of them are showing up to the game looking like clowns.
    — Armando Salguero OutKick, FOXNews.com, 20 Sep. 2026
Definition of clowns
Noun
  • Built in 1965 and 1970, respectively, the vessels are approaching the limits of their service lives.
    — Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 9 Oct. 2026
  • Their bid to change their lives turns into a dangerous chase, and the friendship becomes the one thing protecting them.
    — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 9 Oct. 2026
Definition of lives
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“Slobs.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/slobs. Accessed 11 Oct. 2026.

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