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Gob

Noun (informal)

Definition: A lump of a viscous or slimy substance

Examples: “Sarah scooped a gob of mashed potato with her finger and gulped down immediately, hopping nobody saw her doing that.”

“Did you see a gob of spit on his bag?”

“He started to get up, when he felt a gob of mud hit him in the face.”

“He took a gob of some of the sap looking stuff and rolled it into a ball.”

Published in Dawn, Young World March 4th, 2017

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