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knob rot en · NOUN
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(UK, slang, uncountable, vulgar) A sexually transmitted disease (when contracted by a man).
The Raff's getting like the boy scouts. The old regulars, they didn't think you were properly in until you'd gone down with galloping knob rot […]
1966, Gordon M. Williams, chapter 2, in The Camp, London: Mayflower, page 23:You've been under attack for days, there's a soldier down, he's wounded, gangrene's setting in. "Who's used all the penicillin?" "Oh, Mark Paxton, sir. He's got knob rot off some tart."
2001 August 13, Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant, “New Girl” (22:51 from the start), in The Office, season 1, episode 5 (television production), spoken by Gareth Keenan (Mackenzie Crook), BBC:Liam O'Grady removed (unconscious) from church for failing to forever hold his peace, and instead brandishing note from sexual health walk-in clinic declaring he is now knob-rot free and begging Thin Kylie to take him back […]
2014, Joanna Nadin, The Time of My Life (The Rachel Riley Diaries), Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 320:galloping knob rot
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