obs
See also: Obs
English
Alternative forms
- obs. (especially in the sense "obsolete")
Etymology 1
Adjective
obs
- Abbreviation of obsolete (as a gloss for words in dictionaries)
- Abbreviation of observed
Noun
- (medicine) Observation(s) (blood pressure, temperature, etc).
Etymology 2
Noun
obs (uncountable)
- (slang) police observation
- Synonym: obbo
- 2017, Jimmy Donnelly, Jimmy The Weed: Inside the Quality Street Gang
- But I now knew I was under obs by the Gardai as well as by GMP.
- 2018, Paige Elizabeth Turner, Clock Face of Ills
- Had you under obs for three weeks.
Etymology 3
Noun
obs
Anagrams
German
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Contraction
obs
- Contraction of ob es.
- 1843, Brothers Grimm, “Fundevogel”, in Kinder- und Haus-Märchen, Band 1[1], 5th edition, page 298:
- Es war einmal ein Förster, der gieng in den Wald auf die Jagd, und wie er in den Wald kam, hörte er schreien, als obs ein kleines Kind wäre, und gieng dem Schreien nach, da sah er endlich einen hohen Baum, und oben darauf saß ein kleines Kind.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
obs
- (deprecated template usage) Imperative singular of obsen.
- (colloquial) (deprecated template usage) First-person singular present of obsen.
Swedish
Verb
obs
- Abbreviation of observera (“nota bene”).
Anagrams
Volapük
Pronoun
obs
- we (first-person plural, nominative) (nominative plural of ob)
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