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单词 yob
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Definition of yob in English:

yob

noun jɒbjɑb
British informal
  • A rude, noisy, and aggressive young person.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • He said tougher standards were needed to crack down on thugs and drunken yobs.
    • The forum thinks night life in Kingston is only for the noisy, the rowdy and drug-taking yobs.
    • Lives could be put at risk by yobs vandalising water hydrants so they can cool down in warm weather.
    • Police say a clampdown on louts is working after two teenage yobs were hauled before the courts.
    • He was knocked to the ground and kicked repeatedly in the face by the yobs who threatened to kill him unless he handed over cash.
    • A school is having to fork out to buy security cameras after yobs broke in and embarked on a spree of vandalism.
    • Drastic measures need to be taken such as dusk to dawn curfews on thugs and yobs roaming our neighbourhood.
    • A popular skate park could be closed down because problems with yobs have reached crisis point.
    • However there is a hardcore of yobs and vandals who don't give a monkeys about fox hunting.
    • Schoolboy Will Greer watched in horror as two yobs rode off on his prized BMX bike.
    • A woman who is a repeat victim of car vandals has hit out against the yobs who damage property.
    • Traders in the area, off London Road, have been heavily targeted in the past by vandals and yobs.
    • Residents have appealed for police patrols to be stepped up to rid an estate of yobs and vandals.
    • Residents are being driven out of their homes by young yobs and hooligans who are making their lives a misery.
    • The brothers were described as yobs and louts by the judge in the Damilola trial.
    • We have let these people down - the yobs and their yob parents - and now we are paying the price.
    • They urged police to crack down on racist yobs before youths took the law into their own hands.
    • You have restored my faith in human nature and it proves that not all young people are yobs or thugs.
    • Most vandals and yobs are created by irresponsible and neglectful parents.
    • Police today launched an eight-week blitz on drunken yobs around Greater Manchester.
    Synonyms
    lout, boor, barbarian, neanderthal, churl, clown, gawk, hulk, bumpkin, yokel

Derivatives

  • yobbish

  • adjective ˈjɒbɪʃˈjɑbɪʃ
    British informal
    • (especially of a young person) rude, noisy, and aggressive.

      a crackdown on drunken and yobbish behaviour in the city
      Example sentencesExamples
      • a yobbish bunch of kids trashed the school bus
      • His 16-year-old daughter Samantha and son Tom, 13, have been caught up in drugs, joyriding and yobbish behaviour.
      • The yobbish city culture takes over when two opposing football clubs meet.
      • It is extremely encouraging the campaign has succeeded in mobilising people to take action against yobbish and anti-social behaviour.
  • yobbishly

  • adverb
    British informal
    • Last week he was at it again, demanding punishment of the utmost severity for footballers who behave yobbishly on the pitch.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Am I saying that all yobbishly named wines are awful?
      • I had gone out with some girls I'd met and got so drunk that I was yobbishly being sick in the street.
  • yobbishness

  • noun
    British informal
    • There has to be an end to the drunken yobbishness which has been a problem in the past.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • The clampdown on yobbishness by the youngest pupils is designed to nip the problem in the bud before the children reach secondary school, where teachers face the worst discipline problems.
      • The yobbishness of the youth continues to make headlines.
  • yobby

  • adjectiveyobbiest, yobbierˈjɒbiˈjɑbi
    British informal
    • (especially of a young person) rude, noisy, and aggressive.

      hoards of yobby kids
      Example sentencesExamples
      • yobby behaviour is being dealt with
      • Yobby behaviour is being dealt with.’
      • What I hate about the magazine is its yobby tone.

Origin

Mid 19th century: back slang for boy.

  • This is an example of back slang, in which people say words as though they were spelled backwards. It is a reverse form of boy, and originally, in the mid 19th century, simply meant ‘a boy or youth’. Now a yob is a rude, noisy, or aggressive one.

Rhymes

blob, bob, cob, dob, fob, glob, gob, hob, job, lob, mob, nob, rob, slob, snob, sob, squab, stob, swab, throb
 
 

Definition of yob in US English:

yob

nounyäbjɑb
British informal
  • A rude, noisy, and aggressive young person.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • We have let these people down - the yobs and their yob parents - and now we are paying the price.
    • You have restored my faith in human nature and it proves that not all young people are yobs or thugs.
    • Most vandals and yobs are created by irresponsible and neglectful parents.
    • Residents are being driven out of their homes by young yobs and hooligans who are making their lives a misery.
    • Lives could be put at risk by yobs vandalising water hydrants so they can cool down in warm weather.
    • He was knocked to the ground and kicked repeatedly in the face by the yobs who threatened to kill him unless he handed over cash.
    • Schoolboy Will Greer watched in horror as two yobs rode off on his prized BMX bike.
    • They urged police to crack down on racist yobs before youths took the law into their own hands.
    • Police today launched an eight-week blitz on drunken yobs around Greater Manchester.
    • The forum thinks night life in Kingston is only for the noisy, the rowdy and drug-taking yobs.
    • He said tougher standards were needed to crack down on thugs and drunken yobs.
    • However there is a hardcore of yobs and vandals who don't give a monkeys about fox hunting.
    • Drastic measures need to be taken such as dusk to dawn curfews on thugs and yobs roaming our neighbourhood.
    • A school is having to fork out to buy security cameras after yobs broke in and embarked on a spree of vandalism.
    • Traders in the area, off London Road, have been heavily targeted in the past by vandals and yobs.
    • Residents have appealed for police patrols to be stepped up to rid an estate of yobs and vandals.
    • A popular skate park could be closed down because problems with yobs have reached crisis point.
    • Police say a clampdown on louts is working after two teenage yobs were hauled before the courts.
    • A woman who is a repeat victim of car vandals has hit out against the yobs who damage property.
    • The brothers were described as yobs and louts by the judge in the Damilola trial.
    Synonyms
    lout, boor, barbarian, neanderthal, churl, clown, gawk, hulk, bumpkin, yokel

Origin

Mid 19th century: back slang for boy.

 
 
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