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▪ I. boob, n. slang (orig. U.S.).|buːb|
[Shortened f. booby n.1]
1. = booby n.1 1 e.
1908J. M. Sullivan Crim. Slang 4 Boob, the lockup, station house, or city prison. 1911G. Bronson-Howard Enemy to Society v. 159 Stooling for the coppers and swearing many a right guy into the boob. 1923E. Wallace Missing Million xiii. 108, I thought you were in ‘boob’. 1941Coast to Coast 1941 232 Seeing Don get chucked out of the Ballarat and carted off to the boob. 1958M. Pugh Wilderness of Monkeys xiv. 177 ‘Got six months in jail,’ May added. ‘Half a stretch in the boob,’ Maguire said.
2. = booby n.1 1 a.
1909Sat. Even. Post 27 Mar. 7/3, I had to tell her the boob had gone for the day. 1915[see bone-headed a.]. 1920Chambers's Jrnl. May 282/1 Of course war is wrong—any boob knows that. 1923W. Deeping Secret Sanctuary xvi. 160 And not a soul to speak to but that boob of a boy once in the day. 1930G. B. Shaw Apple Cart i. 26 You gave it away, like the boobs you are, to the Pentland Forth Syndicate. 1961[see boo-boo].
3. A foolish mistake or blunder. Also attrib., foolish, inane.
1934R. Stout Fer-de-Lance (1935) i. 8 A boob thing to say. 1959‘O. Mills’ Stairway to Murder xvi. 167 Boob Number Two... The prison service isn't quite like the Army, Colonel Clive. 1966P. Moloney Plea for Mersey 55 Newspapers have I read in every town And many a boob and misprint have I seen. 1969Daily Tel. (Colour Suppl.) 10 Jan. 7 (U.S.A.) A factory hand released by technology into ever greater leisure may be content to watch the ‘boob toob’ (TV) or go fishing.
4. [prob. shortening of booby n.2] pl. The breasts. slang (orig. U.S.).
1949H. Miller Sexus (1969) xiii. 305, I felt her sloshy boobs joggling me but I was too intent on pursuing the ramifications of Coleridge's amazing mind to let her vegetable appendages disturb me. 1955T. Williams Cat on Hot Tin Roof (1956) i. 7 He always drops his eyes down my body when I'm talkin' to him, drops his eyes to my boobs an' licks his old chops! 1968Daily Mirror 27 Aug. 7/5 If people insist on talking about her boobs, she would rather they called them boobs, which is a way-out word,..rather than breasts.
Add:5. Special Comb. boob tube colloq., (a) orig. and chiefly N. Amer. [in sense 3], a television set, television (see tube n. 2 k); (b) a woman's close-fitting strapless top, usu. made of knitted or elasticated fabric.
1966Current Slang (Univ. S. Dakota) Fall 1 Let's catch the late show on the *boob tube. 1977M. French Women's Room (1978) ii. 115, I sit and watch the stupid boob tube. 1978Daily Tel. 25 Oct. 17/1 You wear strapless boob tubes of gold lamé, much-ruched, with your 1950s pirate pants. 1986My Weekly 2 Aug. 16 Now the rush around to find..a variety of tops from waterproofs to ‘boob-tubes’.
▪ II. boob, v. slang.|buːb|
[cf. sense 3 of prec.]
intr. To make a foolish mistake or blunder. Also trans. (see quot. 1941).
1935T. E. Lawrence Lett. (1938) 851 The camera seems wholly in place as journalism: but when it tries to re-create it boobs. 1941Amer. Speech XVI. 76/1 Slang of the R.A.F...He boobed it, he made a mess of it. 1951‘N. Shute’ Round Bend v. 132 If I boob on this one it'll mean the finish of the business. |