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asbo

Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun Chiefly British A court order barring a person who has engaged in certain harassing, menacing, endangering, or violent behaviors from persisting in those behaviors.
  • noun A person who has been issued one of these orders.
  • noun A person who is rude, unruly, or disruptive.

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  • noun Alternative capitalization of ASBO

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[A(nti-)S(ocial) B(ehaviour) O(rder).]

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Examples

  • Ultimately it is of no consequence whether one writes Asbos or asbo’s or ASBOs so long as the result is comprehensible, and the apostrophe in asbo’s can be justified (see above) whereas the one in the plural potato’s cannot (this is known as the greengrocer’s apostrophe).

    Those apostrophes 2006

  • Ultimately it is of no consequence whether one writes Asbos or asbo’s or ASBOs so long as the result is comprehensible, and the apostrophe in asbo’s can be justified (see above) whereas the one in the plural potato’s cannot (this is known as the greengrocer’s apostrophe).

    Those apostrophes 2006

  • Ultimately it is of no consequence whether one writes Asbos or asbo’s or ASBOs so long as the result is comprehensible, and the apostrophe in asbo’s can be justified (see above) whereas the one in the plural potato’s cannot (this is known as the greengrocer’s apostrophe).

    2 posts from January 2006 2006

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    Cartoon: Phil Disley on the Egypt protests 2011

  • David Mitchell: I'm glad the asbo is going, but most rebranding is just a distraction

    Constitutional reforms in a fix | Editorial 2011

  • An ASBO would have seemed like part of the solution to these ongoing issues – the right conditions would have created the option of arrest for breach of asbo if the youths continued harassing the family.

    IPCC To Investigate Barwell Deaths « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2009

  • David Mitchell: I'm glad the asbo is going, but most rebranding is just a distraction

    Egypt: a trigger for regional change | Editorial 2011

  • Her partner, also called Ashley, used to do some work as a scaffolder, but since being given an asbo has found it hard to get work.

    Britain's not working Amelia Gentleman 2010

  • David Mitchell: I'm glad the asbo is going, but most rebranding is just a distraction

    In praise of … the Welsh Highland railway 2011

  • David Mitchell: I'm glad the asbo is going, but most rebranding is just a distraction

    Charlie Brooker: Q: When does a tabloid become crude propaganda? A: When it starts printing it 2011

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  • johnmperry commented on the word asbo

    Anti-

    Social

    Behaviour

    Order

    June 30, 2008

  • sionnach commented on the word asbo

    Now that I have become aware of the ASBO Fairy Tales book, I just have to have it!

    I have so many questions about ASBOs. How much fly-tipping before the balance is tipped from an ASBO to a CRASBO? What is the threshold decibel level for the lady who got the 'loud sex' ASBO? Does one suicide attempt automatically qualify, or do you have to be a serial self-killer?

    Whistling, for God's sake? Whistling can get you an ASBO? What has been happening in Britain under Blair and Brown?

    We don't need no stinking ASBOs!

    March 10, 2010