Meaning

2 senses
  1. (Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, derogatory, slang)A person who engages in antisocial behaviour or drunkenness.

    Halbstarker, Halbstarke, Rabauke

    хулига́нxuligán, го́пникgópnik

    хуліга́нxulihán

  2. (obsolete)A boy.

More definitions
  • a cruel and brutal fellow

Examples

2 sentences
  1. Some yob kicked a ball at my head.

  2. "Mum, mum! Tom tripped me!" "That yob! I'll give him what for!"

    de„Mama, Mama! Tom hat mir ein Bein gestellt!“ – „So ein Rüpel! Na, der soll was erleben!“ — Pfirsichbaeumchen

Translations

7 languages
Українська
antisocial person:
Русский
antisocial person:
Deutsch
antisocial person:

Origin

Backslang for boy. The second sense was likely influenced by hobnob and/or yokel.

Backslang for boy. The second sense was likely influenced by hobnob and/or yokel.

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Forms

plural: yobs
Singularyob
Pluralyobs

regular

Synonyms

8 synonyms

Word family

1 related words
Relatedelrig

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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