Etymology

Clipping of EnglishCategory:Translingual terms derived from English#YOB YobaCategory:Translingual clippings#YOB.

Symbol

yobCategory:Translingual lemmas#YOBCategory:Translingual symbols#YOBCategory:Translingual terms with redundant script codes#YOBCategory:Translingual entries with incorrect language header#YOBCategory:Pages with entries#YOBCategory:Pages with 2 entries#YOB

1. (international standards) ISO 639-3Category:ISO 639-3 language code for Yoba.

See also

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Yoba terms

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (UK) enPR: yŏb, IPA^(key): /jɒb/Category:English 1-syllable words#YOBCategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#YOB
• (US) enPR: yŏb, IPA^(key): /jɑb/Category:English 1-syllable words#YOBCategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#YOB

• Audio (General Australian):

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• Audio (UK):

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• Rhymes: -ɒbCategory:Rhymes:English/ɒb#YOBCategory:Rhymes:English/ɒb/1 syllable#YOB

Noun

yob (plural yobs)Category:English lemmas#YOBCategory:English nouns#YOBCategory:English countable nouns#YOBCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#YOBCategory:Pages with entries#YOBCategory:Pages with 2 entries#YOB

1. (obsoleteCategory:English terms with obsolete senses#YOB, costermongersCategory:Costermongers' back slang#YOB, back slangCategory:English back slang#YOB) A boy.
   • 1897, A. R. Marshall, Pomes^[sic] from the Pink 'Un, page 76:

     And you bet that each gal, not to mention each yob,
     Didn't care how much ooftish it cost 'em per nob.

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   • 2010, Paul R. Wilson, The Birthday of Eternity, page 209:

     As we left the cemetery, I heard an elderly gravedigger muttering back slang to himself before Lucien's headstone. "Bloody shame, ain't it? Doubt the yob did much living by eighteen."
     I corrected the man, saying, “No fear, that yob did plenty of living.”

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2. (derogatoryCategory:English derogatory terms#YOB, chiefly UKCategory:British English#YOB, IrelandCategory:Irish English#YOB, CommonwealthCategory:Commonwealth English#YOB, slangCategory:English slang#YOB) A person who engages in antisocial behaviour or drunkenness.
   • 2005 January 10, Melissa Jackson, “Music to deter yobs by”, in BBC News‎:
   • 2009 August 8, Janet Daley, “The real reason for all those louts on holiday”, in The Telegraph‎:

     Yes, it's holiday time again for British yobs – and the rest of us can flee to those parts of Abroad which the louts ignore, or just cringe in shame at home.

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   • 2017 March 27, Keiran Southern, “'We could have been killed': Fury at yobs who bricked windscreen with baby girl in car”, in Chronicle Live‎, retrieved 28 March 2017:

     But while doing 70mph on the A1, a hooded yob threw rock^{[sic – meaning a rock]} from a grass verge onto the windscreen of the family’s Jeep, causing it to swerve.

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   • 2022 November 2, Paul Bigland, “New trains, old trains, and splendid scenery”, in RAIL, number 969, page 57:

     Three local yobs have also joined, but they have not reckoned on a redoubtable Conductor and two local revenue protection officers who soon escort them off the train!

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Anagrams

• BYO, boy, byo, oby