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单词 yob
释义
yobyob /jɒb $ jɑːb/ (also yob‧bo /ˈjɒbəʊ $ ˈjɑːboʊ/) noun [countable] British English Word Origin
WORD ORIGINyob
Origin:
1800-1900 Backward spelling of boy
Examples
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
  • A dozen yobs stood outside the pub.
  • Our TV screens have been taken over by so-called yob culture.
  • Residents complained that yobs had been vandalizing their gardens.
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
  • He's just a yob, right?
  • In the worst incident, 300 yobs showered police with broken bottles and bricks then looted shops in the centre of Coventry.
  • It was all pleasantly noisy without any air of aggression, there were no yobs or self-styled hard men among the customers.
  • Martin, growling savagely at the yobs, daring them to interfere.
  • Most people, when they hear screaming, either think it is a gang of yobs or quarrelling lovers.
  • She might be with that red-headed yob.
  • Was this the yob who had planted the cannabis?
Thesaurus
Longman Language Activatorsomeone who behaves rudely
British a young man who is rude, noisy, and sometimes violent: · A dozen yobs stood outside the pub.· Residents complained that yobs had been vandalizing their gardens.yob culture (=TV programmes, films, and other forms of entertainment that involve rudeness and unintelligent behaviour): · Our TV screens have been taken over by so-called yob culture.
especially American an annoying person who behaves in a stupid way, for example by behaving in a rude and unpleasant way: · Ignore him. He's just a jerk.· He's an unprofessional jerk who's always pestering the women in the office.real/total jerk: · Her husband was being a real jerk about the divorce.
a man or boy who behaves in a rude and violent way: · A few foul-mouthed louts in the crowd were shouting racist abuse.· Only a lout would treat a woman that way.lager louts British (=young men who drink too much beer and behave in rude or violent way): · We stood at the bar being jostled by some thick-necked lager louts.
WORD SETS
borstal, nounbovver, noundropout, nounflower power, noungang, nounmod, nounpunk, nounpuppy love, nounrocker, nounsalad days, nounskinhead, nounsubculture, nounteen, adjectiveteenage, adjectiveteenager, nounteenybopper, nounwhippersnapper, nounyob, nounyoung, adjectiveyoungster, nounyouth club, nounyouth culture, noun
a rude noisy and sometimes violent young man SYN  lout:  drunken yobbos
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