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Noun: boob  boob
Usage: informal
  1. An ignorant or foolish person
    - dumbbell [informal], dummy [informal], dope [informal], booby, pinhead [informal], div [Brit, informal], poon [Austral, informal], divvy [Brit, informal]
     
  2. [vulgar] Either of two soft fleshy milk-secreting glandular organs on the chest of a woman
    - breast, bosom
     
  3. [Brit, informal] An embarrassing mistake
    - blunder, blooper [N. Amer, informal], bloomer [informal], bungle, pratfall [informal], foul-up, flub [N. Amer, informal], botch, boner [N. Amer, informal], boo-boo [informal], goof [informal], blue [Austral, NZ, informal]
Verb: boob  boob
Usage: informal
  1. Commit a faux pas or a fault or make a serious mistake
    - drop the ball, sin, blunder, goof [informal]

Derived forms: boobed, boobs, boobing

Type of: breach, break, error, fault, go against, infract, mamma, mammary gland, mistake, offend, simple [archaic], simpleton, transgress, violate

Part of: adult female body, woman's body

Encyclopedia: Boob