dob

Etymology 1
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Verb

 * 1)  To report (a person) to someone in authority for a wrongdoing.
 * I’ll dob on you if you break in.
 * You dobbed me in! — I never did!
 * 1) * 1998, Supreme Court of Victoria, Council of Law Reporting in Victoria, Victorian Reports, Volume 4, page 372,
 * The deceased “dobbed” him in about drugs to police on two occasions. This resulted in police seizing some of his drugs. She “dobbed” him in because he would not give her amphetamines. He may have told people that she “dobbed” him in.
 * 1)  To do one's share; to contribute.
 * We all dobbed in for a gift when he retired.
 * 1)  To nominate a person, often in their absence, for an unpleasant task.
 * I arrived just after the meeting had started and found myself dobbed in to take the minutes.
 * 1) * 1977, University of British Columbia, Canadian Literature, Issues 74-77, |dobbed+in+for|to%22+-intitle:%22%22+-inauthor:%22dobbing%22&dq=%22dobbing|dobbed+in+for|to%22+-intitle:%22%22+-inauthor:%22dobbing%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=2LhAT7yqIe_JmQXc4vmvBw&redir_esc=y page 108,
 * Writing reviews reminds me of the time I got dobbed in to be the judge at the Poochera sheep dog trials. It′s easy they said, sinking beers in the shade of the lean-to, just watch the dog.
 * 1)  To play truant
 * I arrived just after the meeting had started and found myself dobbed in to take the minutes.
 * 1) * 1977, University of British Columbia, Canadian Literature, Issues 74-77, |dobbed+in+for|to%22+-intitle:%22%22+-inauthor:%22dobbing%22&dq=%22dobbing|dobbed+in+for|to%22+-intitle:%22%22+-inauthor:%22dobbing%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=2LhAT7yqIe_JmQXc4vmvBw&redir_esc=y page 108,
 * Writing reviews reminds me of the time I got dobbed in to be the judge at the Poochera sheep dog trials. It′s easy they said, sinking beers in the shade of the lean-to, just watch the dog.
 * 1)  To play truant
 * 1)  To play truant

Usage notes
Most often used with "in" or "on".

Synonyms

 * See also Thesaurus:rat out
 * See also Thesaurus:play truant

Noun

 * 1) A small amount of something, especially paste.
 * Put a dob of butter on the potato, please.
 * 1) * 1903, Rudyard Kipling, The Tabu Tale, in Just So Stories (in the U.S. Scribner edition, but omitted from most British editions),
 * ‘Consequence will be, O Tegumai,’ said the Head Chief, ‘that we will make them understand it with sticks and stinging-nettles and dobs of mud; and if that doesn't teach them, we'll draw fine, freehand Tribal patterns on their backs with the cutty edges of mussel-shells.’

Etymology 2
Initialism.

Etymology 3
Short for do our best.  (or ) and dob were used as abbreviated forms of do your best and do our best in certain Scout chants.

Verb

 * 1)  In the scouting movement, to chant dob to indicate that one will do one's best to follow the scouting laws.

Etymology 1
From.

Verb

 * 1)   to throw, to cast to cause an object to move rapidly through the air
 * 2)  to drop to intentionally let fall, to release hold of
 * 3)  to roll to throw dice
 * 4)  to dump to end a relationship with
 * 5)  to throw to send an error
 * 1)  to roll to throw dice
 * 2)  to dump to end a relationship with
 * 3)  to throw to send an error
 * 1)  to throw to send an error
 * 1)  to throw to send an error

Etymology 2
Probably an onomatopoeia.

Noun

 * 1)  drum a percussive musical instrument

Usage notes

 * This form is used before words beginning with a vowel or fh followed by a vowel.

Noun

 * 1) lion

Etymology
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Noun

 * 1) age

Etymology 1
From.

Noun

 * 1) oak