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Boob   /bub/   Listen
noun
boob  n.  
1.
An ignorant or foolish person.
Synonyms: dumbbell, dummy, dope, booby, pinhead.
2.
A female breast. (informal or vulgar)
Synonyms: breast, bosom, knocker, tit, titty.


verb
boob  v.  To commit a faux pas or fault.
Synonyms: sin, commit an offence, blunder, goof.





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"Boob" Quotes from Famous Books



... think any boob can come along and hold my train up till I lose my right of way you've got another guess comin'. I ain't goin' to be sidetracked by every train ...
— Gunsight Pass - How Oil Came to the Cattle Country and Brought a New West • William MacLeod Raine
... "Don't be a darned boob!" Johnny snapped impatiently. "Turn 'er over. Miss Selmer wants me to pilot her home, and I'm going to tackle it. You needn't be scared, ...
— Skyrider • B. M. Bower
... ye boob, an' pull the blinds down. There's coppers on every corner. Now, what is it ye want in the way o' whiskers or hair? Ye can slip me the change through ...
— Officer 666 • Barton W. Currie
... Critz learned to work the little pea neatly, he urged Mr. Gubb to take the part of capper, and each time Mr. Gubb won he gave him a five-dollar bill. Then Mr. Gubb posed as a "boob" and Mr. Critz won all the money back again, beaming over his spectacle rims, and chuckling again and again until he burst into a fit of coughing that made him red in the face, and did not cease until he had taken a big drink of water out of the wash-pitcher. Never had he seemed more like a kindly ...
— Philo Gubb Correspondence-School Detective • Ellis Parker Butler
... be publicly and finally severed from Van before I annex him, the boob," was the soliloquy of the Violet as she prepared for her slumber of beauty. Another question is how thin a veneer of feminine beauty weathers indefinitely the ...
— Blue-grass and Broadway • Maria Thompson Daviess
... doing in the way of buying booms around Sucker Brook. But you got to stand some losses now and then if you're goin' to keep in line for an occasional big cleanup. And, anyway, it was worth while to head Elisha P. Bayne's boob list. You ought to see the sarcastic smiles he used to shoot over when we'd meet and he'd ask if I'd heard from, my dancing friends yet. Say, I expect I furnished the one ...
— Shorty McCabe on the Job • Sewell Ford
... precious granddad had a yellow streak in him, did he? And father wasn't much of a fighter either. Takes more than two generations to wipe out a yellow streak, does it? I wonder what the old boob meant by that rotten ...
— Quill's Window • George Barr McCutcheon
... the brush. "Dolt! Boob! Moron! Idiot!" Not Willows. Himself. There was no reason on earth—or Luna—why he couldn't walk over to Number One hot lab and get the stuff himself. The habit of never leaving the lab without thorough decontamination was so thoroughly ingrained in him that he had simply never thought ...
— The Bramble Bush • Gordon Randall Garrett


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