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DOB¹

noun DOBs

  1. abbreviation, initialism Initialism of date of birth
  2. abbreviation, initialism Initialism of degree of bending

proper noun

  1. abbreviation, initialism Initialism of Daughters of Bilitis The first organized and successful lesbian liberation organization in the United States
  2. abbreviation, initialism Initialism of 2 or 5-Dimethoxy-4-bromoamphetamine A psychedelic drug similar to 2C-B

dob²

  • /dɑb/ US
  • /dɒb/ UK

Rhymes with -ɒb

Where it comes from

Uncertain. Possibly from Middle English dobben.

verb dobs · dobbing · dobbed

  1. Australia, New Zealand, intransitive, slang To report a person to someone in authority for a wrongdoing. (For transitive forms see dob in, dob on.) Students often claimed that an act of informing was just ‘dobbing as a joke’ and therefore ‘not really dobbing’.
  2. Northern Ireland, ambitransitive, slang To play truant. Parents were taken to court 189 times in the Western region over the past five years because their children were ‘dobbing’ school.¶ The Education Minister John O’Dowd revealed the number of parents taken to court due to children being absent from school […]

dob³

  • /dɑb/ US
  • /dɒb/ UK

Rhymes with -ɒb

Where it comes from

Probably variation of dab.

noun dobs

  1. A small amount of something, especially paste. Put a dob of butter on the potato, please.

dob⁴

  • /dɑb/ US
  • /dɒb/ UK

Rhymes with -ɒb

Where it comes from

Initialism.

noun DOB

  1. abbreviation, initialism Initialism of date of birth

dob⁵

  • /dɑb/ US
  • /dɒb/ UK

Rhymes with -ɒb

Where it comes from

Short for do our best. dyb (or dib) and dob were used as abbreviated forms of do your best and do our best in certain Scout chants.

verb dobs · dobbing · dobbed

  1. humorous, intransitive, sometimes In the scouting movement, to chant dob to indicate that one will do one's best to follow the scouting laws. I used to get through the dibbing and dobbing all right but during the howling I usually rolled over backwards.

DoB⁶

noun DoBs

  1. abbreviation, initialism Initialism of date of birth A-SSN verified on name, DoB and sex
  2. abbreviation, initialism Initialism of degree of bending Through-the-thickness stress distribution characterized by the degree of bending (DoB) has a major effect on the fatigue behavior of tubular joints commonly found in steel offshore structures. The determination of DoB values is essential for improving the accuracy of fatigue life estimation using th

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@misc{dob_2026,
  title = {dob},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/dob},
  urldate = {2026-11-05}
}