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Recent Examples of yob There’s certainly little warmth surrounding the past here, beginning with an eerie, cryptic prologue, set in 1973, that sees a rural wedding crashed by yobs in sinister, medieval-looking straw masks, followed by yellowing newspaper headlines that puzzle over the bride’s subsequent disappearance. Guy Lodge, Variety, 13 Aug. 2024 Johnson has more to worry about than just random yobs disrupting the call. Mark Hachman, PCWorld, 31 Mar. 2020 But these folk will not be your random yobs brought in to gawp. William Booth, Washington Post, 2 Mar. 2018 After the yobs fled, the Sun reported, Cumberbatch hugged the deliveryman from Deliveroo, a U.K. food-delivery service. The Washington Post, NOLA.com, 2 June 2018
Recent Examples of Synonyms for yob
Noun
  • There’s no dearth of evil Imperial thugs in Andor — however, one character who seems to exist in a complicated moral gray is Lonni Jung (Robert Emms), a fellow ISB officer who attends Partagaz’s closed-door briefings alongside Dedra but relays the Empire’s plans to Luthen in secret.
    Siddhant Adlakha, Vulture, 21 Apr. 2025
  • Speaking of the stand: The prosecution’s main witness changes her damning testimony against Gomez when one of his thugs — the same guy that was trying to get Noah to get in his car — arrives in court and glares menacingly from the back row.
    Kimberly Roots, TVLine, 17 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • By the way, none of us is a criminal, as hacking is not a crime.
    Davey Winder, Forbes.com, 19 May 2025
  • Manson was a petty criminal who had been in and out of jail since childhood.
    Stephanie Nolasco, FOXNews.com, 18 May 2025
Noun
  • Locomotive, which is currently in Cannes with pics such as gangster comedy Café 404 and Richard Strauss’ Deadline, has also secured deals for In the Fire of War with unnamed buyers in the likes of Poland and Germany.
    Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 14 May 2025
  • Colby is a gangster wannabe, and Niro has become a lawman, leaving the 'street rat' life behind.
    Fran Ruiz, Space.com, 12 May 2025
Noun
  • Frey was the Game of Thrones villain who orchestrated that show’s infamous Red Wedding, a premeditated and highly violent attack on a large group of people that took place during a wedding reception.
    Kimberly Roots, TVLine, 13 May 2025
  • The filmmaker released a 15-second preview of the trailer, featuring footage of a battle between Superman and a mechanized villain named the Hammer of Boravia.
    Michileen Martin, MSNBC Newsweek, 13 May 2025

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“Yob.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/yob. Accessed 27 May. 2025.

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