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gob stick en · NOUN

Pronunciation

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Etymology

See gob (“mouth”).

Meanings

1. (slang) A clarinet.
   • Stop spouting and give us some groovy licks on that gob stick of yours. 2013, R. K. Cowles, “1930s Poems: Licking the Chops”, in Slang Poetry Volume 1, →ISBN, page 57:
2. (UK, archaic, dialectal, slang) A spoon.
3. A stick or device for removing the hook from a fish's gullet.
   • He […] wrenched out the hook with the short wooden stick he called a "gob-stick". 1897, Rudyard Kipling, chapter 3, in Captains Courageous:

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