bobbitt

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verb

To cut off the penis of (a person).

“Watch out: she might bobbitt you as you sleep.”

UncommonScrabble 13

Meanings

bobbitt1

verbbobbitt (third-person singular simple present bobbitts, present participle bobbitting, simple past and past participle bobbitted)

present singular third person bobbitts · participle present bobbitting · participle past bobbitted · past bobbitted

  1. informaltransitiveTo cut off the penis of (a person).

    Watch out: she might bobbitt you as you sleep.

  2. informaltransitiveTo cut off (the penis).

    2019, Lt. Col. K. Gopinathan (Retd), The Coup India Missed One by one, the emasculated humanoids emerged from the LCV into their weird penis-less world. […] The Group Leader […] pulled a SAT phone from the glove compartment and tapped out 'bobbitted'. He pressed the send button.

    2 more examples

    […] penis should be Bobbitted by about seven feet, having been joined up to his navel in error […]

    1995, Fortean Times, numbers 78-83, page 8

    The consensus was that the thing was indecent, and it had to be abridged, Bobbitted, turtled, so to speak.

    2007, Karen Kendall, Fit to be Tied, page 46

Bobbitt2

proper noun

Origin

bobbitt · verb

From the surname of John Wayne Bobbitt, whose wife cut off his penis during his sleep.

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Bobbitt · proper noun

From Bobb + -et.

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