| 释义 |
▪ I. dob, v.|dɒb|
[variant of dab.]
1. = dab v.1 3.
1821J. W. Masters Dick & Sal lxxxii. in Kent. Dial., So den I dobb'd him down the stuff. 1881Cheq. Career 251 She deliberately lifted up her off hind-leg, and ‘dobbed’ it down into the milk-pail.
2. To betray, inform against. Const. in. Austral. slang.
1959Baker Drum (1960) 105 Dob in, to betray, to focus blame on another; esp. to dob someone in. 1963E. Thompson Lawyer & Carpenter vi. 100 Any time you run outside the law, I won't dob you in, either. 1964Punch 18 Nov. 750/2 Those Canberra wowsers have really dobbed us in this time. 1970M. Kelly Spinifex vii. 113 You won't dob me into the demons.
▸ intr. slang (orig. and chiefly Austral.). With on. To inform on, betray.
1979J. Summons Lamb of God 43 He and his mates would've got me after school. They bash you up if you dob on them. 1986Advertiser (Adelaide) (Nexis) 28 May Some ‘bikies’ who told him he had been beaten because he had ‘dobbed’ on them and owed them money for drugs. 1997Independent 8 Apr. (Suppl.) 3/4 Say you've accidentally breached confidentiality and a patient threatens to dob on you unless you hand over a binful of barbiturates. What do you do?
▪ II. dob
obs. form of dub v. |