Gob
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Template:Wiktionary Gob can mean several things:
- Gob is a type of dessert food, composed of two flapjack-shaped cakes, generally butterscotch- or chocolate-flavored, and a layer of marzipan or icing between them, forming a sandwich.
- Gob is a Vancouver punk rock band founded in 1996.
- Official web site (http://www.gobnet.com/)
- GOB is the nickname (pronounced like the old Testament "Job") of a character on the television show Arrested Development. It is an acronym for George Oscar Bluth II, the character played by Will Arnett.
- Gob is [Irish] Gaelic for "mouth", as in, "Shut your gob!". This is the origin of its synonymous British slang usage.
- Gob is British slang for "to spit" or for "phlegm that has been spat out", as in, "Don't you gob at me!"
- In the Bible, Gob was the location of two battles between the Israelites and the Philistines, mentioned in 2 Samuel 21:18-19.
- Gob is a common name for bituminous waste coal (http://www.energyjustice.net/coal/wastecoal/).