gob stick

noun

A clarinet.

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Meanings

noungob stick (plural gob sticks)

plural gob sticks · alternative gobstick · alternative gob-stick

  1. slangA clarinet.

    Stop spouting and give us some groovy licks on that gob stick of yours.

    2013, R. K. Cowles, “1930s Poems: Licking the Chops”, in Slang Poetry Volume 1, →ISBN, page 57
  2. UKarchaicdialectalslangA spoon.
  3. A stick or device for removing the hook from a fish's gullet.

    He […] wrenched out the hook with the short wooden stick he called a "gob-stick".

    1897, Rudyard Kipling, chapter 3, in Captains Courageous

Origin

See gob (“mouth”).

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APA

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Chicago

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