slob

From Irish slaba. Compare slobber, which is of Germanic origin.

• enPR: slŏb, IPA^(key): /slɒb/

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• Rhymes: -ɒb

slob (plural slobs)

1. (informal, derogatory) A lazy and slovenly person.
   • 2004, Carlin, George, “COMIN' DOWN”, in When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops?‎, New York: Hyperion Books, →ISBN, OCLC 757869006, OL 24604921M, page 58:

     "Ladies and gentlemen, we have just begun our gradual descent into the Indianapolis area, a descent similar in many ways to the gradual slide of the United States from a first-class world leader to an aggressive, third-rate debtor nation of overweight slobs, undereducated slob children and aimless elderly people who can't afford to buy medicine. The current conditions in Indianapolis: Temperature sixty-one degrees, partly cloudy skies, winds from the southwest and intense Midwestern boredom."

2. (informal, derogatory) A lazy and obese person.

• slobdom

• LBOs, LOBs, lobs, slbo