Definitions for yobyɒb

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Random House Webster's College Dictionary

yob*yɒb(n.)

  1. a teenage lout or hooligan.

    Category: British

* Brit. Slang..

Origin of yob:

1855–60; a consciously reversed form of boy

Princeton's WordNet

  1. bully, tough, hooligan, ruffian, roughneck, rowdy, yob, yobo, yobbo(noun)

    a cruel and brutal fellow

Wiktionary

  1. yob(Noun)

    A person who engages in antisocial behavior/behaviour and/or drunkenness.

  2. Origin: Backslang for boy.


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