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boob

nounverbnounnounattested in dialogue

  • //ˈbuːb//

A mistake.

noun

  1. 1

    datedAn idiot; a fool.

    Not having an ear for music it annoys me to hear the boobs squeal.

    [BURNS AND ENSEMBLE]: Look at all those idiots. Oh, look at all those boobs. An office full of morons. A factory full of fools. Is it any wonder that I'm singing, singing the blues!?

    He said he felt like such a boob in school and nobody talked to him.

  2. 2

    informalA mistake.

Etymology

Clipped form of booby (“fool”). Appeared near the beginning of the twentieth century; more information at booby § Etymology 1.

verb

  1. 1

    To behave stupidly; to act like a boob.

    After three hits his cleverness ran out. He boobed.

  2. 2

    informalTo make a mistake.

    ...the younger generation will not altogether be grateful for the book in which they are contained — especially when he boobs in calling the Weavers a rock ensemble.

noun

  1. 1

    slangA breast, especially that of an adult or adolescent female human.

    Tough luck. Too quick in covering to let them see her boobs.

    Her boob had fallen out of her nightgown and now lay limp against the stained sheet.

    Mommy Has a Boo Boo in Her Boob was written to help families who have been affected by breast cancer.

Etymology

Clipped form of booby (“breast”). Appeared from the 20th century; more information at booby § Etymology 2.

noun

  1. 1

    A prison; jail.

    Then he got or was brought back to Mongumber he was tired to a tree and was belted by the white officer in charge put into the boob that they have ther I think of cause we cant say for a certain he was brought out of the boob dead or nearly.

    I begin to feel homesick for the easy drifting of boob. I guess the fact is I'm afraid of life, haven't got the guts to be a real criminal.

Etymology

Apparently shortened from booby-hatch.

Forms

plural
boobs
past tense
boobed
past participle
boobed
present participle
boobing
third person singular
boobs
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).