Yob

Pronunciation

• UK enPR: yŏb, IPA: /jÉ’b/
• Rhymes: -É’b

Origin

Backslang for boy.

Full definition of yob

Noun

1. (pejorative, chiefly British, Australia, NZ, slang) A person who engages in antisocial behavior/behaviour and/or drunkenness.
• 2010, Paul R. Wilson, The Birthday of Eternity, page 209As we left the cemetary, I heard an elderly gravedigger muttering back slang to himself before Lucien's headstone. "Bloody shame, ain't it? Doubt the yob did much living by eighteen."
  I corrected the man, saying, “No fear, that yob did plenty of living.”

Synonyms

• (standard register) hooligan
• (British) tearaway, chav
• (Chiefly Australian slang) yobbo
• (Geordie slang) charva

Derived terms

• yobbo

Anagrams

• boy
• byo, BYO