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  • And the same thing goes for that crowd of crabs and snobs Down East, and next time you hear some zob from Yahooville-on-the-Hudson chewing the rag and bulling and trying to get your goat, you tell him that no two-fisted enterprising Westerner would have New York for a gift!

    Main Street 2004

  • I don't know how you fellows feel about prohibition, but the way it strikes me is that it's a mighty beneficial thing for the poor zob that hasn't got any will-power but for fellows like us, it's an infringement of personal liberty. ''

    Babbitt 1922

  • I don’t know how you fellows feel about prohibition, but the way it strikes me is that it’s a mighty beneficial thing for the poor zob that hasn’t got any will-power but for fellows like us, it’s an infringement of personal liberty.

    Chapter 10 1922

  • And the same thing goes for that crowd of crabs and snobs Down East, and next time you hear some zob from Yahooville-on-the-Hudson chewing the rag and bulling and trying to get your goat, you tell him that no two-fisted enterprising Westerner would have New York for a gift!

    Main Street 1920

  • And the same thing goes for that crowd of crabs and snobs Down East, and next time you hear some zob from Yahooville-on-the-Hudson chewing the rag and bulling and trying to get your goat, you tell him that no two-fisted enterprising Westerner would have New York for a gift!

    Main Street Sinclair Lewis 1918

  • Having worked with both green and light blue int, I would say the zob/rupert corps have an equal proportion of throbbers/good chaps - I am not qualified to talk about difference between the SNCOs/ranks of either service.

    Army Rumour Service 2009

  • a state of not being an object (clung to as truly existent) zab-be zob-be slack zab-zob see: zab-be zob-be zhal-gdams guideline teachings zhal-lung personal instructions zhen-pa cling to conceptually zi-bun enraptured

    Tibetan-English Glossary of Mahamudra Technical Terms Kar-ma-pa dBang-phyug rdo-rje 2009

  • a state of not being an object (clung to as truly existent) zab-be zob-be slack zab-zob see: zab-be zob-be zhal-gdams guideline teachings zhal-lung personal instructions zhen-pa cling to conceptually zi-bun enraptured

    Tibetan-English Glossary of Mahamudra Technical Terms Kar-ma-pa dBang-phyug rdo-rje 2009

  • I don’t know how you fellows feel about prohibition, but the way it strikes me is that it’s a mighty beneficial thing for the poor zob that hasn’t got any will-power but for fellows like us, it’s an infringement of personal liberty.”

    Babbit 2004

  • I don't know how you fellows feel about prohibition, but the way it strikes me is that it's a mighty beneficial thing for the poor zob that hasn't got any will-power but for fellows like us, it's an infringement of personal liberty. "

    Babbitt Sinclair Lewis 1918

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  • A worthless person.

    May 14, 2008