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moby

nounadjectiveattested in dialogue

  • Australia

A mobile phone.

noun

  1. 1

    slangA mobile phone.

Etymology

From mobile + -y.

adjective

  1. 1

    slangSick; unwell.

    So there ends up being puke everywhere […] I was like, 'I told you I was feeling Moby,' but she didn't answer […]

Etymology

Rhyming slang: Moby-Dick and sick.

Forms

plural
mobies
comparative
more moby
superlative
most moby
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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).