British vulgar slang for an act of fellatio.
British vulgar slang for an act of fellatio. 'Gob' is British slang for mouth, so a gob job is literally a mouth-job — direct, unambiguous, and crude in register. It is firmly informal and sexual, used in the same register as comparable terms in British vernacular.
The comedian's routine about gob jobs got the biggest laugh of the night.
Gob job means: British vulgar slang for an act of fellatio. 'Gob' is British slang for mouth, so a gob job is literally a mouth-job - direct, unambiguous, and crude in register. It is firmly informal and sexual,. It is informal slang, fine in casual speech but not suited to formal contexts. It carries sexual or vulgar connotations; not alarming on its own but worth understanding the context your teen heard it in.
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British slang meaning to gossip, blab, or talk loudly and at length about things that aren't your business. To gob off is to let your mouth run without much filter — whether that means spilling someone else's secrets, mouthing off to an authority figure, or just filling dead air with endless chatter. 'Gob' is already British slang for mouth, so 'gobbing off' is essentially the act of letting that mouth run loose.
Crude British slang for performing fellatio, derived from 'gobble' — to eat greedily or noisily — applied as a vulgar metaphor for oral sex on a penis. The term is blunt and explicit, more likely to appear in adult comedy, explicit fiction, or frank casual conversation than anywhere polite. 'Gobble' has been used as slang for oral sex in British English since at least the mid-twentieth century.
British vulgar slang for an act of fellatio. 'Knob' is British slang for penis, making the compound a direct, crude term following the same pattern as 'blow job' or 'hand job'. Firmly informal and sexual in register, widely understood in British English.
Gob job means: British vulgar slang for an act of fellatio. 'Gob' is British slang for mouth, so a gob job is literally a mouth-job - direct, unambiguous, and crude in register. It is firmly informal and sexual,. It is informal slang, fine in casual speech but not suited to formal contexts. It carries sexual or vulgar connotations; not alarming on its own but worth understanding the context your teen heard it in.
gob job means: British vulgar slang for an act of fellatio. 'Gob' is British slang for mouth, so a gob job is literally a mouth-job - direct, unambiguous, and crude in register. It is firmly. Register: very informal, often derogatory or vulgar. Avoid in formal, business, academic, or polite writing. Even in casual speech the word can offend and is best left out of a learner's active vocabulary. A common learner mistake is using the word in a register it does not fit, or assuming a single global meaning; native speakers immediately notice when slang appears in formal contexts, so always check the surrounding register before producing it yourself.
(slang, vulgar) An act of fellatio.
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