yobbery

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noun

Yobbish behaviour.

Scrabble 17
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Meanings

nounyobbery (plural yobberies)

plural yobberies

  1. uncountableYobbish behaviour.

    The next day's papers criticized the yobbery but there was very little about racism.

    2001, Ben Carrington, Ian McDonald, Race, Sport, and British Society
    1 more example

    Yobbery, in this instance, is one signifier of a certain social problem or set of problems...

    1997, Timothy Bewes, Cynicism and Postmodernity
  2. countableAn instance of yobbish behaviour.

    ...minor incivilities and yobberies...

    1995, John Patten, Things to Come: The Tories in the 21st Century

Origin

From yob + -ery.

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