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Recent Examples of yob There’s certainly little warmth surrounding the past here, beginning with an eerie, cryptic prologue, set in 1973, that sees a rural wedding crashed by yobs in sinister, medieval-looking straw masks, followed by yellowing newspaper headlines that puzzle over the bride’s subsequent disappearance. Guy Lodge, Variety, 13 Aug. 2024 Johnson has more to worry about than just random yobs disrupting the call. Mark Hachman, PCWorld, 31 Mar. 2020 But these folk will not be your random yobs brought in to gawp. William Booth, Washington Post, 2 Mar. 2018 After the yobs fled, the Sun reported, Cumberbatch hugged the deliveryman from Deliveroo, a U.K. food-delivery service. The Washington Post, NOLA.com, 2 June 2018
Recent Examples of Synonyms for yob
Noun
  • The British consul wants to smuggle the seal out of China, with the help of a group of local thugs.
    ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 7 Apr. 2025
  • As the machine gun thug tries to seal that deal for Whitman, Cara attempts to get him in her rifle's sights.
    Matt Cabral, EW.com, 6 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • In the film, Martin Lawrence plays an FBI agent who has to go undercover as a larger-than-life grandma — the eponymous Big Momma — to track down an escaped criminal.
    William Earl, Variety, 1 Apr. 2025
  • In a recent spree of clemency for white collar criminals, President Trump has pardoned Utah entrepreneur Trevor Milton, who was convicted in 2022 of misleading investors in his hydrogen and electric truck company Nikola.
    Erin Alberty, Axios, 1 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • In 1932 Chicago police raided an apparent summit meeting of gangsters, and arrested Lansky and five others on vagrancy charges.
    Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 3 Apr. 2025
  • Russian gangsters, grenades, terrorist plots, amnesia, and the idyllic Maine coastline all make an appearance.
    Randall Colburn, EW.com, 1 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Even when a big threat does arrive on the scene, the heroes aren't there right away, so plenty of innocent people get hurt before a villain gets brought to justice.
    John W. Dean, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 Apr. 2025
  • Whereas Serena could easily have emerged as a one-note villain, from the beginning of her tenure on the series, Strahovski has imbued Serena with a soulfulness that often puts the audience uncomfortably on her side, despite her reprehensible actions.
    Scarlett Harris, IndieWire, 7 Apr. 2025

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“Yob.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/yob. Accessed 15 Apr. 2025.

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