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WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun boob has 2 senses
- boob(n = noun.person) booby, dope, dumbbell, dummy, pinhead - an ignorant or foolish person; Array is a kind of simple, simpleton
- boob(n = noun.body) bosom, breast, knocker, tit, titty - either of two soft fleshy milk-secreting glandular organs on the chest of a woman; Array is a part of adult female body, woman's body
Derived form verb boob1
has parts: lactiferous duct, areola, ring of color
is a kind of mamma, mammary gland
Verb boob has 1 sense
- boob(v = verb.social) blunder, drop the ball, goof, sin - commit a faux pas or a fault or make a serious mistake; "I blundered during the job interview" is one way to breach, break, go against, infract, offend, transgress, violate
Derived form noun boob1
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP
CIDE DICTIONARY
boob, v.
to commit a faux pas or fault. [WordNet 1.5]
boob, n.
- an ignorant or foolish person. [WordNet 1.5]
- a female breast. [WordNet 1.5]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
boob, n. & v. sl.
--n.
1 Brit. an embarrassing mistake.
2 a simpleton.
--v.intr. Brit. make an embarrassing mistake.
--n.
1 Brit. an embarrassing mistake.
2 a simpleton.
--v.intr. Brit. make an embarrassing mistake.
boob, n. sl. a woman's breast.
Idiom
boob tube sl.
1 a woman's low-cut close-fitting usu. strapless top.
2 (usu. prec. by the) US television; one's television set.
1 a woman's low-cut close-fitting usu. strapless top.
2 (usu. prec. by the) US television; one's television set.
Etymology
earlier bubby, booby, of uncert. orig.
THESAURUS
boob
Babbitt, Philistine, asshole, babe, bag, boeotian, boobs, booby, bosom, breast, breasts, brisket, bust, chest, chump, cinch, credulous person, crop, cull, ding-a-ling, dingbat, dingdong, dolt, dolthead, dug, dupe, easy mark, easy pickings, fall guy, fathead, fish, fool, galoot, gobe-mouches, goof, greener, greenhorn, greeny, gudgeon, gull, innocent, jerk, jerk-off, klutz, knockers, leadpipe cinch, mama, mamelon, mamelonation, mammary gland, mammilla, mammillation, middlebrow, monkey, mutt, nenes, nipple, oaf, pap, papilla, patsy, pigeon, pigeon breast, plaything, prize sap, pushover, sap, saphead, sawney, schlemiel, sitting duck, stooge, sucker, teat, thorax, tit, tits, titties, titty, toy, trusting soul, udder, victimROGET THESAURUS
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Convexity
N convexity, prominence, projection, swelling, gibbosity, bilge, bulge, protuberance, protrusion, camber, cahot, thank-ye-ma'am, swell, intumescence, tumour, tumor, tubercle, tuberosity, excrescence, hump, hunch, bunch, boss, embossment, hub, hubble, tooth, knob, elbow, process, apophysis, condyle, bulb, node, nodule, nodosity, tongue, dorsum, bump, clump, sugar loaf, bow, mamelon, molar, belly, corporation, pot belly, gut, withers, back, shoulder, lip, flange, pimple, zit, wen, wheel, papula, pustule, pock, proud flesh, growth, sarcoma, caruncle, corn, wart, pappiloma, furuncle, polypus, fungus, fungosity, exostosis, bleb, blister, blain, boil, airbubble, blob, papule, verruca, papilla, nipple, teat, tit, titty, boob, knocker, pap, breast, dug, mammilla, proboscis, nose, neb, beak, snout, nozzle, schnoz, peg, button, stud, ridge, rib, jutty, trunnion, snag, cupola, dome, arch, balcony, eaves, pilaster, relief, relievo, cameo, bassorilievo, mezzorilevo, altorivievo, low relief, bas relief, high relief, hill, cape, promontory, mull, forehead, foreland, point of land, mole, jetty, hummock, ledge, spur, naze, ness, convex, prominent, protuberant, projecting, bossed, embossed, bossy, nodular, bunchy, clavate, clavated, claviform, hummocky, moutonne, mammiliform, papulous, papilose, hemispheric, bulbous, bowed, arched, bold, bellied, tuberous, tuberculous, tumous, cornute, odontoid, lentiform, lenticular, gibbous, club shaped, hubby, hubbly, knobby, papillose, saddle-shaped, selliform, subclavate, torose, ventricose, verrucose, salient, in relief, raised, repousse, bloated, (expanded).
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