DOB Definition
abbreviation
Date of birth.
Webster's New World
Date of birth.
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verb
(slang, chiefly Australia and UK) To report (a person) to someone in authority for a wrongdoing.
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(slang, chiefly Australia) To do one's share; to contribute.
We all dobbed in for a gift when he retired.
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(slang, chiefly Australia) To nominate a person, often in their absence, for an unpleasant task.
I arrived just after the meeting had started and found myself dobbed in to take the minutes.
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(intransitive, sometimes humorous) In the scouting movement, to chant dob to indicate that one will do one's best to follow the scouting laws.
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noun
A small amount of something, especially paste.
Put a dob of butter on the potato, please.
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Origin of DOB
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Short for do our best. dyb (dib) and dob were used as abbreviated forms of do your best and do our best in certain Scout chants.
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Uncertain.
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