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yobbo slang.|ˈjɒbəʊ|
Also yobo. Pl. yobbos, occas. yobboes.
[An extended form of prec.]
A lout, a hooligan.
1922Contemp. Rev. CXXII. 368 To him the boys are always the ‘yobos’. 1938Evening News 7 Mar. 11/5 A few inverted words have found common acceptance; slop (policeman), yob or yobbo (street rough, an inverted form of boy). 1940R. Postgate Verdict of Twelve i. v. 74 Hardly any one about except a few yobos who had got nothing to do, and hung around in irritated idleness, spitting manfully in the gutter and telling dirty stories. 1955E. Blishen Roaring Boys iii. 147 ‘Yoboes!’ said my colleague. ‘My God, I wouldn't teach again in a senior school... Their insolence and rowdiness.’ 1959J. Braine Vodi xii. 165 Some yobbos in 1916 broke Nisbauer's shop window. 1960News Chron. 9 Feb. 6/6 The local Teddies and yobbos swing their dubious weight behind the strike. 1964in Hamblett & Deverson Generation X 56 Ever since that Profumo lark I've come to the conclusion that we working class yobos, as they like to call us, have less to be ashamed of than those establishment geezers. 1972T. Stoppard Jumpers ii. 80 That astronaut yobbo is good for twenty years hard. 1978[see street-corner s.v. street n. 4 b]. 1982Age (Melbourne) 4 Feb. 9/4 We get the odd guarded comment from the yobbo on the street about our dress. |