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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
  • Summit, June 10 Image So Far Gone by Jess Walter Rhys Kinnick, a journalist and a recluse, is living off the grid in the woods near Spokane, Wash., when his grandchildren are kidnapped by thugs.
    Laura Thompson, New York Times, 22 May 2025
  • Everything changes, however, when two thugs come to visit and promptly beat the ever-loving heck out of Hank at the front door.
    Emlyn Travis Published, EW.com, 21 May 2025
Noun
  • Their records contain sensitive personal information, that, if leaked, could allow criminals to steal the identities of unsuspecting customers.
    Theo Burman, MSNBC Newsweek, 12 June 2025
  • Cruz, the son of an undocumented immigrant from El Salvador who came to the U.S. in the 1970s, said he’s angered by the federal government’s portrayal that anyone without documents living in the United States is a criminal.
    Summer Lin, Los Angeles Times, 12 June 2025
Noun
  • Polish media have also reported on his connections to gangsters and the world of prostitution.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 30 May 2025
  • Historically speaking, a half-Mexican woman isn’t usually the first in line to write a story about a violently ambitious gangster, which is what excited me most about it.
    Nellie Andreeva, Deadline, 28 May 2025
Noun
  • New threats emerge, including a ruthless new villain (Bill Skarsgård) and a blind assassin from Wick’s past, played by Donnie Yen in a standout performance.
    Emily Blackwood, People.com, 6 June 2025
  • Nicholas Hoult plays the film’s villain, the megalomaniac super-genius Lex Luthor.
    Jack Dunn, Variety, 5 June 2025

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“Yob.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/yob. Accessed 16 Jun. 2025.

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