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   boob

   /buːb/

   noun

   • 1. an embarrassing mistake: British "the boob was spotted by a security expert at the show"
   • 2. a foolish or stupid person: North American "why was that boob given a key investigation?"

   verb

   • 1. make an embarrassing mistake: British "we found that we had boobed and the booking was for the previous week"

   Word Origin early 20th century: abbreviation of booby1.

   Scrabble Points: 8

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   Is Boob a slang word?

   • Boob is a word for a woman's breast — it's also a word for an idiot. So if you're staring at a lady's boobs, you probably look like a boob. This is a very common slang word that's not really inappropriate. Nobody is going to get too mad about you using the word boob, though breast is definitely more anatomically correct.

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   What does boob stand for?

   • Bobby Ray Simmons, Jr., better known by his stage name B.o.B was born on November 15, 1988 in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. He is an American hip-hop recording artist, singer-songwriter and record producer. He played the trumpet in his school band from elementary school through high school.

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   What does it mean when someone calls you a boob?

   • The term is shared by Spanish and Portuguese, and apparently, at least one obscure Central African language which has other Portuguese words in it from colonial times. So, when someone calls you a boob, they are expressing a sentiment that has been expressed around the world in many languages, although not necessarily about you in particular.

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   What is the sense of boob?

   • The noun BOOB has 2 senses: 1. an ignorant or foolish person. 2. either of two soft fleshy milk-secreting glandular organs on the chest of a woman. Familiarity information: BOOB used as a noun is rare.

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   Is Boob a bad word?

   • Nobody is going to get too mad about you using the word boob, though breast is definitely more anatomically correct. The other meaning of boob is similar to dope, dumbbell, dummy, pinhead, and numbskull. This meaning is also pretty harmless. Calling someone a boob is only a little insulting — not quite fighting words.

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   What is the meaning of booby?

   • (North American English) a stupid person noun senses 2 to 3 early 20th cent.: abbreviation of booby ‘stupid person’. noun sense 1 1950s (originally US): abbreviation of booby ‘woman's breast’, from dialect bubby, of uncertain origin; perhaps related to German dialect Bübbi ‘teat’.

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   6 meanings: 1. an ignorant or foolish person; booby 2. British an embarrassing mistake; blunder 3. a female breast 4.

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