Meanings
nounpaybob (plural paybobs)
plural paybobs
- UKslanggovernmentAn accountant.
Sod all the Shipwrights and CPO Cooks, Sod all the Paybobs and their bleeding books For we're saying goodbye to them all As back to their hammocks they crawl.
2015, Cyril Tawney, Grey Funnel Lines, page 1411 more example
A form book about as helpful as the old Greek oracles is thus produced and guides the odds given by the numerous illegal bookmakers who compete with the tote run by the paybobs on each ship.
1979, W. B. Harvey, Downstairs in the Royal Navy, page 60
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