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A yob is a young man who behaves badly in public — loud, rude, pushing people around, breaking things, sometimes fighting. It is a British word and a strong one; you are not describing someone's style, you are saying they are a nuisance and probably to be near. British newspapers love it because it is short and it fits a headline, and it turns up a lot in stories about drinking, football crowds, and trouble on the street at night. It is usually about men, and usually young ones. There is a matching adjective, yobbish, and the noun yobbo, which means the same thing. Americans mostly do not use yob; they would say hooligan, punk or thug. Be aware it is a class-loaded insult in Britain — it is nearly always aimed at working-class young men, and some people avoid it for that reason.
（英式用語）小混混、街頭鬧事的年輕男子；帶有明顯貶意，語感接近台灣說的「屁孩」但更兇、更暴力一點
組成A word game: yob is boy spelled backwards. This kind of back-to-front slang was used in nineteenth-century Britain so that outsiders would not understand. So a yob was, at the start, simply a "boy" said in a hidden way; the bad meaning came later.
原始詞典資料4 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
yobnoun/jɒb/
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obsoleteA boy.
- And you bet that each gal, not to mention each yob, Didn't care how much ooftish it cost 'em per nob.
- As we left the cemetery, I heard an elderly gravedigger muttering back slang to himself before Lucien's headstone. "Bloody shame, ain't it? Doubt the yob did much living by eighteen." I corrected the man, saying, “No fear, that yob did plenty of living.”
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derogatoryslangA person who engages in antisocial behaviour or drunkenness.
- Yes, it's holiday time again for British yobs – and the rest of us can flee to those parts of Abroad which the louts ignore, or just cringe in shame at home.
- But while doing 70mph on the A1, a hooded yob threw rock^([sic – meaning a rock]) from a grass verge onto the windscreen of the family’s Jeep, causing it to swerve.
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。