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  • noun Plural form of blob.

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Examples

  • I know you think these things that you call blobs popping up is odd, well not if you have a clue that they are characters from the new pixar movie coming out soon called monsters vs aliens, that fact makes these things a lot less odd and funny and now just a kids cartoon character.

    Shirking my Shirtly Duties Jen 2009

  • And this is not about fetuses or the "unborn" or the pre-born or anything they call the blobs of cells they purport to love so much.

    Archive 2005-04-01 2005

  • About a decade ago, astronomers discovered immense reservoirs of hydrogen gas - which they named "blobs" - while conducting surveys of young distant galaxies.

    Universe Today 2009

  • About a decade ago, astronomers discovered immense reservoirs of hydrogen gas - which they named "blobs" - while conducting surveys of young distant galaxies.

    Universe Today 2009

  • And this is not about fetuses or the "unborn" or the pre-born or anything they call the blobs of cells they purport to love so much.

    more theocracy 2005

  • And I don't ever recall blobs of ectoplasm running out her nose and ears.

    The Trouble with Witches Damsgaard, Shirley 2006

  • "To our disappointment," the scientists wrote last month in The Biological Bulletin, "we have not found any evidence that any of the blobs are the remains of gigantic octopods, or sea monsters of unknown species."

    apocalyptic odds & ends Gwenda 2004

  • • The File interface, which adds better file-handling features to browsers, for example letting people upload a video in separate pieces called blobs so a 500-megabyte file transfer won't be derailed by a flaky network.

    The Download Blog: Software tips, news, and opinions from Download.com editors Stephen Shankland 2011

  • In Text, when writing picture captions for a publication I often need 'bullets', or 'blobs' - solid circular black dots of all point-sizes.

    Discussions: Message List - root 2010

  • The blobs are the adolescent galaxies and the hydrogen gas, leftover from their creation.

    unknown title 2009

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