FOB
English
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Pronunciation
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Adjective
FOB (not comparable)
Noun
FOB (plural FOBs)
- (military) Initialism of forward operating base.
- Initialism of flash of brilliance.
- (US, politics) Initialism of friend of Bill: a supporter of Bill Clinton
- 2007, David Lebedoff, The Uncivil War: How a New Elite Is Destroying Our Democracy, page 133:
- It seemed at times that everyone was an FOB — everyone, that is, who'd emerged from the ivyest groves of academia […]
- (India) Initialism of foot overbridge: a pedestrian overpass
- 2014 August 30, D. Madhavan, “Need for foot over bridge keenly felt”, in The Hindu[1]:
- There has been an inordinate delay in starting work on the foot over bridge (FOB) with escalators in front of D.G. Vaishnav College on Poonamallee High Road in Arumbakkam. […] The FOB at P.H. Road, which is maintained by the state highways department, is one of seven similar facilities planned at various places in the city at a cost of Rs. 28 crore and being executed by the department.
- (sometimes derogatory) A recent immigrant ("fresh off the boat")
Synonyms
- (recent immigrant): freshie, greener, new chum; see also Thesaurus:newcomer
Derived terms
Further reading
- “FOB”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.