dob

noun

1. (abbreviation, alt-of, initialism)Initialism of date of birth.
2. (abbreviation, alt-of, initialism)Initialism of degree of bending.
3. A small amount of something, especially paste.

   “Put a dob of butter on the potato, please.”

   “1903, Rudyard Kipling, The Tabu Tale, in Just So Stories (in the U.S. Scribner edition, but omitted from most British editions), ‘Consequence will be, O Tegumai,’ said the Head Chief, ‘that we will make them understand it with sticks and stinging-nettles and dobs of mud; and if that doesn't teach them, we'll draw fine, freehand Tribal patterns on their backs with the cutty edges of mussel-shells. […] ’”

4. (abbreviation, alt-of, initialism)Initialism of date of birth.
5. (abbreviation, alt-of, initialism)Initialism of date of birth.

   “A-SSN verified on name, DoB and sex”

   “DoB = BIRTH/BAPTISM: Where possible we have given a precise date of birth or baptism, usually taken from the Barra Parish Register.”

   “Name / Address / City / ZIP / DoB / Sex / Education”

   “ID / First Name / Last Name / DoB / Gender / City / Country”

6. (abbreviation, alt-of, initialism)Initialism of degree of bending.

   “Through-the-thickness stress distribution characterized by the degree of bending (DoB) has a major effect on the fatigue behavior of tubular joints commonly found in steel offshore structures. The determination of DoB values is essential for improving the accuracy of fatigue life estimation using the stress-life (S–N) method […]”

name

1. (abbreviation, alt-of, initialism)Initialism of Daughters of Bilitis The first organized and successful lesbian liberation organization in the United States.
2. (abbreviation, alt-of, initialism)Initialism of 2 or 5-Dimethoxy-4-bromoamphetamine A psychedelic drug similar to 2C-B.

verb

1. (Australia, New-Zealand, intransitive, slang)To report a person to someone in authority for a wrongdoing. (For transitive forms see dob in, dob on.)

   “Students often claimed that an act of informing was just ‘dobbing as a joke’ and therefore ‘not really dobbing’.”

   “Alex was concerned that if others thought he had dobbed, things would get even worse for him. Dobbing was the worst thing a student could do.”

2. (Northern-Ireland, ambitransitive, slang)To play truant.

   “Parents were taken to court 189 times in the Western region over the past five years because their children were ‘dobbing’ school.¶ The Education Minister John O’Dowd revealed the number of parents taken to court due to children being absent from school […]”

3. (humorous, intransitive, sometimes)In the scouting movement, to chant dob to indicate that one will do one's best to follow the scouting laws.

   “I used to get through the dibbing and dobbing all right but during the howling I usually rolled over backwards.”

   “Why were there 212 fatalities at the first boy scout camp? There wasn't much dybbing and dobbing at Robert Baden-Powell's first scout camp as the camp in question was in Mafeking and took place during a particularly nasty siege[…]”