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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of dob.

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Examples

  • A classmate who is a legitimate Navy Commander photographed the phony sergeant and dobbed him in.

    NEWS NOVEMBER 2009 2010

  • Gilligan conceded that he was "quite wrong" to have dobbed in his source (Kelly) to some MPs on the British Foreign Affairs Committee.

    Tony Blair: The Next Labour Prime Minister? 2010

  • The client that Laura and Hairbaggs met has also dobbed Laura in for talking too fast.

    The Apprentice ? week eight live blog Heidi Stephens 2010

  • So I * may* have dobbed him in to his specialist (who wasn't at all surprised).

    Close Encounters aka TBTAM 2008

  • Anonymous - call 999 suggests that at least as much of a crime has been committed here as by the planning committee of the Lib Dem Durham City Council that Huhne dobbed in most recently.

    Chris Huhne MP: Will Need to Get Calling 999 ... Again 2008

  • With Johnny "two shags" Prescott being dobbed in for having an affair with his secretary, you would have to have a heart of stone not to giggle inanely at the misfortune that has befallen his former boss, ex-leader of the Labour Party Neil Kinnock.

    One shouldn't gloat, but… Richard 2006

  • How can it be that poor little blogger and stringer me knows exactly who dobbed Ivan Lewis in for his unfortunate moments of madness with his adventures in text-uendo?

    Exclusive: Newsnight "Revelations" Mr Crick Wrong 2008

  • Smiling prettily, she agreed to sign my timesheet, laughed over our joint inability to add up my hours correctly, and in all aspects behaved as though she had not just dobbed me in for a dressing-down and firing.

    2008 August 14 « shattersnipe: malcontent & rainbows 2008

  • Though perhaps his estranged first wife - who dobbed him in for the buried treasure - could assist the Post in clearing the matter up?

    London: Brocket, Boris, Fast Cars and Loose Women 2008

  • Though perhaps his estranged first wife - who dobbed him in for the buried treasure - could assist the Post in clearing the matter up?

    Archive 2008-05-04 2008

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