zob

plural zobs

1. USdatedderogatoryslangA good-for-nothing person.

   And the same thing goes for that crowd of crabs and snobs Down East, and next time you hear some zob from Yahooville-on-the-Hudson chewing the rag and bulling and trying to get your goat tell him that no two-fisted enterprising Westerner would have New York for a gift!

   1920, Sinclair Lewis, chapter XXXV, in Main Street: The Story of Carol Kennicott, New York, N.Y.: Harcourt, Brace and Howe, →OCLC, section III, pages 415–416

   Synonyms: absolute zero, assbucket, asswipe, badling, blatherskite, bugger, carrion, cipher