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1. [US] A man who serves as a sailor
   - mariner, seaman, tar, Jack-tar, Jack, old salt, seafarer, sea dog
    
2. [Brit] A lump of slimy stuff
   "a gob of phlegm"
    
3. [Brit] Informal term for the mouth
   - trap, cakehole [Brit], hole, maw, yap
    
4. (informal) a large number or quantity
   - shedload [Brit], truckload, bucketload

1. Expel or eject (saliva or phlegm or sputum) from the mouth
   - spit, ptyalize, ptyalise [Brit], spew, spue [archaic]

Derived forms: gobbed, gobbing, gobs

Type of: ball, chunk, clod, clump, cough out, cough up, crewman, expectorate, glob, lump, mouth, oral cavity, oral fissure, rima oris, sailor, spit out, spit up

Encyclopedia: Gob